How microphones will help protect UK’s £65,000,000,000 undersea cables from Putin

The cables will turn the ocean floor into a ‘continuous array of microphones’ (Picture: BAE Systems)

You can’t see them from space, but a network of critical undersea cables powers the UK.

The wires and pipelines carry over 90% of the nation’s daily internet traffic and are worth £65bn to the economy.

The race is on to protect these lifelines, which are currently ‘naked’ and ‘incredibly vulnerable’ to sabotage from Russia and other states.

Metro can reveal that undersea microphones are being developed to give the British mili...