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Research objective: Critical infrastructure
26 September 2024 by ClimateNews Editor
What a research team from NDR has discovered about the activities of Russian research vessels in the Baltic Sea is quite disturbing. The Tagesschau :
“The research team was able to speak to a former sailor on the Russian research vessel “Sibiryakov”. According to the source, who is speaking to the press for the first time, the ships are designed to precisely measure critical infrastructure: “everything that appears on the seabed, whether it is an internet cable or a power line, is a strategic, enemy object. (…) If you destroy it in the event of a war, you have an advantage. The direct function of the research vessels is therefore to scan the seabed and provide this information to the military.” The supposed research vessels are usually equipped with sensitive sonar and radar technology. Some ships, including the “Gorigledzhan”, also have devices for deploying submarines and underwater drones.”
Some of these ships are under the control of the Russian military. One of their tasks is likely to be to explore western infrastructure on the seabed. The ships zigzag over prominent spots at slow speeds. The research team benefited from an old technology: Morse code. The ships send certain data to Russian authorities using Morse code. This includes their positions. Although the ships switch off the automatic identification, the journeys could be traced thanks to the Morse code.
AI also helped with this. Anyone who is now only thinking of data cables or pipelines may be forgetting wind power. Wind farms can also be attacked. The cables that transport the electricity are a worthwhile target. One destroyed cable and an entire wind farm would be cut off.
A representative of the offshore wind power industry expressed concerns in the report that such uncertainties could scare off investors. Russian research vessels have also been spotted and driven away from wind farms in the Baltic Sea. In any case, the term "free energy" should be reconsidered. It is basically just as vulnerable as other energy supplies.