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One important question that I'm unclear on is how long it takes to fix one of these cables. If it takes months then that is quite a wide window in which an attacker could incrementally take down cables.
Generally it can be fixed in days. They raise it from the sea floor and splice in a new cable section.
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They actually have very cool devices that will automatically align and fuse two fibers and estimate the loss of the bond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_C0XLLyR0
how much do one of those bad boys cost?
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Generally it can be fixed in days. They raise it from the sea floor and splice in a new cable section.
True but ships and crews with the equipment to do the repairs are limited. It's possible to overwhelm the repair capacities. Also, it takes time to physically travel between cuts so while cuts in the Baltic might take a week or two to fix, a cut in the Atlantic and one in the Baltic may take a week or two just for travel.
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True but ships and crews with the equipment to do the repairs are limited. It's possible to overwhelm the repair capacities. Also, it takes time to physically travel between cuts so while cuts in the Baltic might take a week or two to fix, a cut in the Atlantic and one in the Baltic may take a week or two just for travel.
If someone will try to overwhelm the repair capacities for integral communications, they'll be dealt with like pirates - simply sunk and be done with.
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If someone will try to overwhelm the repair capacities for integral communications, they'll be dealt with like pirates - simply sunk and be done with.
As if they know which ship did this…
One important question that I'm unclear on is how long it takes to fix one of these cables. If it takes months then that is quite a wide window in which an attacker could incrementally take down cables.
One important question that I'm unclear on is how long it takes to fix one of these cables. If it takes months then that is quite a wide window in which an attacker could incrementally take down cables.
Certainly worth blowing up some russian ships to make sure it doesn't happen again
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And then once they are fixed take them out again
> once they are fixed take them out again In an actual war, you hit the repair equipment and personnel [1]. (As to the Geneva Conventions note, we're discussing a hypothetical war with Russia. The status quo , including rules of war, are going to be rewritten by the victors.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike
One important question that I'm unclear on is how long it takes to fix one of these cables. If it takes months then that is quite a wide window in which an attacker could incrementally take down cables.
They could even blow up all cables at once. Maybe the explosives have already been placed.