Former NATO chief James Stavridis said Russian submarine capabilities are a threat to the West.
“In particular, Russian submarines likely have the ability to descend to very deep sections of cables and could disrupt them,” he said in an article for Bloomberg.
The military said undersea communications, through which a large number of financial transactions pass every day, are insufficiently protected. Stavridis called them “a vulnerable Achilles’ heel.”
Earlier it was reported that the Russian frigate “Marshal Shaposhnikov” attacked a “submarine” on exercises in the South China Sea.