"there is a war going on in the Atlantic"
The British military has found sensors off the UK coast that are believed to be Russian attempts to spy on the country’s nuclear-armed submarines, reports The Sunday Times.
Some of the sensors were found on the seabed, while others washed ashore.
The military believes they have been deployed to gather information about Britain’s four submarines equipped with nuclear missiles.
‘There should be no doubt that there is a war going on in the Atlantic. This is a cat-and-mouse game that has been going on since the end of the Cold War and is now escalating again,’ a senior British military official told the paper.
The newspaper’s three-month investigation revealed the discovery of unmanned Russian craft ‘lurking next to deep-sea cables’.
The government also has ‘credible intelligence’ that superyachts owned by Russian oligarchs may have been used to conduct underwater reconnaissance, according to the paper.
Cover Photo: David Parody/AP/TT. A British submarine at a naval base in Gibraltar in 2016.
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