On September 10–11, 2026, NATO allies including Britain, Norway, and the United States tracked and confronted Russian submarines conducting a training exercise in Arctic waters near Svalbard. The Russians were practicing deployment of a secret weapon designed to disable undersea cables carrying critical infrastructure near Norway.
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EXCLUSIVE: NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot Reuters
LONDON/WASHINGTON, Sept 10 - Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints.
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Britain and Norway disclosed in April that they had uncovered a covert Russian operation in Arctic waters. But the discovery of the new weapon and the location of the operation had not been reported.
A joint operation between the US, UK, and Norway thwarted a Russian operation to sabotage undersea cables with a “secret weapon” near the Arctic’s Svalbard archipelago.
Britain, Norway and the United States tracked and confronted Russian vessels near Norway’s Svalbard archipelago this spring during an exercise involving technology designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving traces, Reuters reported, citing two Western officials [defensenews.com#1][kyivindependent.com#1][euronews.com#1][meduza.io#1][delfi.lv#2]. Russia’s Main Directorate for Deep-
Western officials describe new ‘secret weapon’ for disabled undersea cables
NATO foiled a Russian training exercise simulating the deployment of a secret weapon against Norwegian undersea cables.
# NATO allies foil # Russia 's # underseacables sabotage plot They belong to # Norway which has two 1,400km cables connecting # Svalbard to the mainland, sitting at a depth of nearly 3km. The clandestine Russian operation, described to Reuters by two Western officials, was carried out by Moscow's # GUGI undersea warfare directorate, which used deep-sea submersibles to simulate the deployment of th