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The last time it happened, the Russian ship had also been seen unnaturally going back and forth over the cable where the damage occurred. These damages do not h
by MasterYoda 2y ago
The last time it happened, the Russian ship had also been seen unnaturally going back and forth over the cable where the damage occurred. These damages do not happen by themselves. Considering the current international situation and the fact that it happened in a short time in several places unnaturally in a limited region, the Baltic Sea, you have to be very naive if you do not see this as probable sabotage.
- amelius 2y agoDo we have some kind of time-of-flight system that can find out exactly where a cable damage occurred, the instant that it occurs?
- alenrozac 2y agoThere's repeaters so the general area should be known.
- UltraSane 2y agoThey can measure the location of the break to centimeters by timing how long a light pulse takes to reflect back to the emitter. It is called time-domain reflectometry.
- amelius 2y agoOk, then was it used? And if not, why not?
- UltraSane 2y agoIt was almost certainly used.
- amelius 2y agoWhat was the response?
- UltraSane 2y agoThey now the distance to the break from one end. They then use that with a map of the cable to determine the lat and long of the break and send a ship to fix it.
- amelius 2y agoSo, no navy involved? With such a system I would expect them to catch the perpetrator red-handed and raid their ship, etc.
- UltraSane 2y agoThis process assumes the damage is accidental and doesn't involve the military. If Russia keeps cutting optic cables that could change. I can envision military ships getting real-time notification of fiber cuts and the current location of all foreign ships.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoWhy are you assuming that would be released publicly? The person you are discussing this with is simply informing you of the existence and availability of the technology you're asking about.
- trollied 2y agoThis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread-spectrum_time-domain_reflectometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread-spectrum_time-domain_re...
- vlan0 2y agoI think you mean C-OTDR? https://www.anritsu.com/en-us/test-measurement/products/mw90010a https://www.anritsu.com/en-us/test-measurement/products/mw90...
- s800 2y agoyes, OTDR
- pvaldes 2y agoThe "Yi Peng 3", a Chinese ship that parted from a Russian Port, has been located near both cables just before they were cut. The ship was detained in NATO water, and now faces an investigation. Currently, all points to a deliberate act of hybrid warfare
- autokad 2y agowell, we did blow up their pipeline, so not like we didnt open the salvo for making international resources fair game
- mantas 2y agoWho is „we“?
- autokad 2y agoyou can call it NATO
- mantas 2y agoSo, Germany?
- deanCommie 2y agoYour profile says you're in Lithuania. Lithuania is part of NATO. IF this was an officially sanctioned mission by a NATO country, then you're part of the "we". That's kind of the deal with alliances.
- immibis 2y agoHello Mr Internet Research Agency employee, A random Lithuanian person is not Germany. Hope this helps.
- deanCommie 2y agoSo long as we live in democracies, we are responsible for the actions of our governments. You can certainly go "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos" during domestic discussions of displeasure of the ruling party. But, in international affairs, we are accountable for our government's foreign policies. I'm Canadian. "We" are in a proxy war with Russia. "We" need to win lest Putin thinks he can just take sovereign nations like Ukraine without the rest of the world stopping him. Appeasing dictators is a losing policy. "We" need to do everything possible by having Europe fund Ukraine, and now while "We" have Biden agreeing to do so, until Trump takes over and "we" have infighting between NATO nations about what to do about Ukraine.