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NATO plans to deploy sea drones to monitor and protect undersea cables — Admiral expects drone fleet patrols to begin from June 2025
The alliance wants to have eyes and ears near its submarine cables.
French Admiral Pierre Vandier, the current Supreme Allied Commander in charge of evolving NATO forces and capabilities, told Defense News that doing this is similar to having CCTV cameras mounted on street lights to help monitor urban trouble spots and record evidence. More recently, the U.S. Navy established TF 59.1, a smaller group within the unit that’s tasked with testing and upgrading systems provided by defense contractors to ensure that they’re ready for operational deployment. But because it will probably use an already existing system, it has set June 2025 as the launch date of the drone surveillance fleet—just in time for the next NATO Summit.
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