NATO Turns to Underwater Drones and AI in Bid to Deter Russia

The NATO military alliance is racing to develop technologies to allow real-time detection of suspicious activity near underwater critical infrastructure, after the Nord Stream pipeline blasts one year ago laid bare the difficulty of monitoring.

Fourteen nations from the alliance, along with Sweden, are testing sea drones, sensors and the use of AI in a 12-day exercise off the coast of Portugal that ends Friday. The exercise comes as Russia continues to map allied cables and pipelines as possible future targets, according to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

A drone during the Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS) NATO exercise in Troia, Portugal.

Source: NATO

NATO has yet to formally accuse any actor for the Nord ...