NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect vital cables.
Power and communications cables and gas pipelines stitch together the nine countries with shores on the Baltic, a relatively shallow and nearly landlocked sea. A few examples are the 152-kilometer (94-mile) Balticconnector pipeline that carries gas between Finland and Estonia, the high-voltage Baltic Cable connecting the power grids of Sweden and Germany[*]. and the 1,173-kilometer (729-mile) C-Lion1 telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany.
*I hope they have a really good fuse panel on that one.
I used to have a chunk of an undersea telephone cable (but not from the Baltic). I didn't cut it out myself; I got it from the factory where it was made. I lost it somewhere along the way, But, as this story notes, it was about the size of a garden hose. Six or eight inches of garden hose, to be precise.
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