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Post by Pacifico on Oct 20, 2022 21:28:27 GMT
Possibly. The cables are far too deep for any diver to reach. Cables can be lifted, cut, repaired, and parts even stolen by surface vessels. It’s rumoured that it wasn’t unknown for the Japanese to literally lift US and UK made repeaters along international cable routes to copy the technology. No doubt untrue. But it’s possible the Russians have caught up — though their technical abilities and warfare technology does seem to be less than’s been feared for decades. Or it could just be fishing — it’s not unknown…This would tend to indicate there is a bit of a problem with this technology. If you cannot tell the difference between a fishing accident and an act of war I'd suggest something more robust is needed. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 21, 2022 2:05:24 GMT
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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 21, 2022 2:06:33 GMT
If it comes to light, in whatever way, that the Russians did it, thats an act of war. So what's new? |
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Post by jaydee on Oct 21, 2022 8:00:13 GMT
If it comes to light, in whatever way, that the Russians did it, thats an act of war. So what's new? So his murdering Uk citizens in the UK. But Bojoke was more interested in Russian Gold at the time. By the way this is a duplicate thread. |
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Post by jonksy on Oct 21, 2022 9:40:25 GMT
That's a good link my friend. That is why I named the thread as " Could this be a putin act"... |
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Post by patman post on Oct 21, 2022 14:36:51 GMT
Cables can be lifted, cut, repaired, and parts even stolen by surface vessels. It’s rumoured that it wasn’t unknown for the Japanese to literally lift US and UK made repeaters along international cable routes to copy the technology. No doubt untrue. But it’s possible the Russians have caught up — though their technical abilities and warfare technology does seem to be less than’s been feared for decades. Or it could just be fishing — it’s not unknown…This would tend to indicate there is a bit of a problem with this technology. If you cannot tell the difference between a fishing accident and an act of war I'd suggest something more robust is needed. Possibly difficult to tell if a cable break is due to trawling, dredging, or an intentional cut. Monitoring systems will likely indicate where the break is, but it would be interesting to know if there are systems to keep the whole route of a cable under observation.
It's a technology that dates from 1850 and, although the insulation and protection has evolved over the years, it's still laying a cable on the seabed as far out of harm's way as possible. Sometimes, the cables can be buried in a ploughed trench, though that may not be possible, or thought necessary until now, at extreme depths.
Over the 150+ years it's been in use, undersea cable technology has proved reasonably robust — possibly more so than satellites, which are more fragile and are easily jammed... |
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Post by johnofgwent on Oct 24, 2022 17:44:04 GMT
Is now a good time to recall a recent “documentary” regarding life on one of our warships and their being scrambled to shadow a Russian submarine known to be poking around in an area where key undersea communication cables defined as vital to this country’s national security ran.
It seemed pretty clear to me watching that series that a lot of trouble was being put into finding that sub before it did EXACTLY this type of damage
Sorry but my answer to the question posed by the opening post is “hell,yes”
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