Revelation 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Sailing off the south coast of England, the Russian trawler known as the Yantar carried its usual array of hi-tech equipment.
- In photographs released by the Ministry of Defense, a large radar dome can be seen behind two masts bristling with antennae.
- Officially, these allow the 108-meter-long craft to monitor ocean currents, befitting a vessel the Kremlin maintains is part of its oceanographic research fleet.
- But it was the ship’s more nefarious purposes that prompted a rare display of British naval power on Jan 20, when the Yantar was confronted by a British warship, HMS Somerset, and patrol vessel HMS Tyne.
- Humdrum though it may appear, the Yantar is known to carry two submersibles that can dive down up to 6,000 meters, allowing their crew to map, monitor and potentially sever the undersea cables that transmit data around the world.
- The Yantar is an openly provocative target. For almost a decade, the 60-crewed ship has trailed undersea cables around the world, its position revealed through the pings it sends to the Automatic Identification System, a global maritime tracking network.
- From Guantanamo Bay to the North Sea, it is suspected of mapping out Nato’s critical underwater infrastructure to prepare for eventual conflict.
- The global internet network relies on around 500 undersea cables, with 60 or so running through Britain. The most important of these travel across the Atlantic and carry critical financial data between Wall Street and the City.
- In a worst-case scenario, the Yantar could be dropping charges on those cables to be detonated in the event of war, said Mr Sharpe.
- Matt Western, the chairman of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy…
- Russia’s dark fleet is already suspected of four sabotage operations in the Baltic since November, severing cables connecting Estonia to Latvia, Sweden to Lithuania and Norway to Finland and Germany.
- To knock out the UK’s internet connection, dozens of cables would have to be severed simultaneously. Some analysts speculate that, besides threatening such a strike, the Yantar’s probing missions could serve another purpose.
- “I think they probably want to go after critical military cables and discriminate those from the wider network,” Mr. Kaushal said. The location and purpose of such cables is classified, but when bad weather severed one off the US coast in 2007, it grounded the army’s Iraqi drone fleet for a week.
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