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Drone Boats Being Rushed To Help Prevent Baltic Seafloor Cable Sabotage
At least 20 drone boats will take part in NATO's new Baltic Sentry effort spurred by suspected sabotage of undersea cables.
Howard Altman
Posted on Jan 17, 2025
NATO
In the coming weeks, uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) will join NATO’s new
Baltic Sentry effort to protect power and communications cables running under the Baltic Sea, some of which have recently been
sabotaged. The USVs, also known as drone boats, will help establish an enhanced common operating picture to give participating nations a better sense of potential threats and speed up any response.
It is the first time NATO will use USVs in this manner, said a top alliance commander.
NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) “will bring some new [USVs] at the speed of light,” said French Adm Pierre Vandier, the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT). “So, I expect that in less than a few weeks, we will bring that to (
Allied Marine Command) MARCOM and then we will begin to use these ships to give a persistent, 24-7 surveillance of critical areas.”
The plan is to create “a single network” combing “all the picture
, all the video, the [Integrated Automation System] IAS, the picture on a radar picture,” and then share the resulting data “with all stakeholders,” Vandier said Thursday evening after a meeting of NATO defense chiefs. “It will give quicker forensic and quicker hints for action for the multiple stakeholders whether they are industry or Coast Guard or National Police.”
The effort “is the first time we bring this as an operational experiment in answer to an operational problem,” the admiral added.
There will be at least 20 USVs assigned to Baltic Sentry, a NATO spokesman told
The War Zone Friday afternoon.
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