Multimillion-pound plans for technology needed to defend the UK’s undersea cables and pipelines have been set out by defence chiefs.
The Atlantic Bastion programme, announced as part of the Strategic Defence Review, will combine autonomous vehicles and AI with warships and aircraft to identify threats to underwater structure and to defend them.
The Ministry of Defence said it was "in direct response to a resurgence in Russian submarine and underwater activity", including the spy ship Yantar, which was tracked around UK waters last month.
Watch live as Sir Gwyn Jenkins, first sea lord and chief of the naval staff, delivers a keynote speech in central London.
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