Warning about the possibility of disappearing NATO’s naval base

According to RCO News Agency, the Marcom Base, based in Her Her Herch, operates as the NATO Navy Operational Command and is dependent on vital fiber optic cables.

A British Navy retired officer warned that the cables were vulnerable to a multilateral and harmonious attack.

“Yes, under such circumstances, the base is in a very difficult position,” said John Eitcan at a meeting of the National Security Committee in response to the question of whether Marcom may be destructed by such an attack. There is a well -known weakness in these cables, which has now been partially addressed. There are replacement systems but will not be quickly available and provide limited operational capability. “So if an attack is carried out on specific cables, power will definitely decrease and it will take several hours to restore communication.”

At the same meeting, delegates were warned that Britain and NATO had forgotten the importance of submarine infrastructure. They were told that the focus of military and policymakers in recent years has been more focused on “distant wars” than protecting vital intelligence cables.

Following numerous sabotage attacks on cables and submarine pipelines in Europe, the vulnerability of the underwater fiber network has been in doubt.

“I think what we did not pay attention to is the real importance of these cables and their gradual growth,” said Captain Niles Marcosen of the Danish Navy and director of the NATO submarine security center. We have easily forgotten how critical this infrastructure is. “

“At a time when our focus was on distant wars, the issue of security of submarines is completely out of our mind and we haven’t really thought about it,” he said.

The British government is now facing extensive pressure to strengthen the protection of vital data infrastructure cables in the country.

Another military official said: “It is time for the government to seriously respond to submarine infrastructure threats. There are discussions about coping tools, such as underwater drones, but more importantly the full coordination of the state with strong leadership from the center.

The digital economy and the British financial industry are heavily dependent on these underwater data cables. If these infrastructure is targeted by countries such as Russia or China, London may be paralyzed.

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