‘Best in the world’: Royal Navy urged to lead France and Sweden to defend critical cables

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that a Royal Navy frigate has been sent out to patrol the North Sea, while Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has pledged to send out two specialist ships to deal with the monitor the UK’s subsea network from Russia as its “internet and energy are highly reliant on pipelines and cables”.

But Brandon Weichert, a geopolitical analyst and former Congressional staff member, told Express.co.uk that a coordinated effort would be needed to truly ensure that these subsea pipelines are sufficiently protected, but with the Royal Navy at the helm. 

He said: “Since 2014, I’ve urged nations like Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, and others to cooperatively invest in enhancing their naval capabilities to be able to better defend the local waters from obvious Russian aggression.

“France, Britain, and Sweden need to really take point on combining naval assets to defend these undersea cables meanwhile both the US Space Force and NATO’s space defences need to be primed for anything.”

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1679715/royal-navy-france-sweden-nord-stream-gas-putin