{"id":254154,"date":"2023-04-22T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254154"},"modified":"2023-04-22T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:14:21","slug":"is-russia-preparing-to-attack-offshore-wind-turbine-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254154","title":{"rendered":"Is Russia Preparing to Attack Offshore Wind Turbine Infrastructure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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h\/t Breitbart<\/a>; According to a joint investigation by Norwegian journalists, the Russian spy trawlers are back \u2013 and this time the are mapping offshore infrastructure, including wind turbine cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The spy ships<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BETH M\u00d8RCH PETTERSEN <\/a> Journalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLISHED APR 19 AT 14:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The radio on board the fishing vessel \u201cLira\u201d is from the days of the Cold War. In Cyrillic script, it is marked \u04113-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the past year, NRK together with the Nordic public broadcasters Danmarks Radio<\/a> (DR), Sveriges Television<\/a> (SVT) and Finnish Yle<\/a> have used open traffic data to map how Russian shipping traffic can be used for espionage in the Nordics. It comes out in the Brennpunkt documentary The Shadow War<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A systematic review of the tracks shows that at least 50 ships for ten years have had the opportunity to collect information in secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the table in front of researcher St\u00e5le Ulriksen at the Naval Academy are dozens of sheets from our mapping. The sheets show the movements of ships we have investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traces on the maps show that they suddenly appear when there has been a NATO exercise.\u00a0They were close when important\u00a0fiber cables were cut off Vester\u00e5len and damaged off Svalbard<\/a>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May have prepared sabotage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In inland Danish waters, a white government research ship sails near an offshore wind farm. Several sources Danmarks Radio (DR)<\/a> has spoken to believe that the Russian \u201cAdmiral Vladimirsky\u201d is also being used for intelligence work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to intelligence sources and experts, a Russian military underwater program, called GUGI, is currently mapping the waters of the Nordic region. They collect information about power and internet cables, offshore wind farms, oil and gas pipelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more (Norwegian \u2013 Translated using Google): https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/nordland\/xl\/fiskebater-og-andre-fartoy-fra-russland-kan-drive-spionasje-og-etterretning-i-norge-1.16371100<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m not sure what to make of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems implausible that Russia would have to rely on cold war era espionage equipment to coordinate a spying effort. There are much easier ways to communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has access to much better technology for reconnaissance. China has no problem selling technology to Russia, including standalone GPS, microcontrollers, plugin cellular and satellite communicators, model scale engines, exactly the kind of cheap robot technology you need to build sophisticated and stealthy reconnaissance systems out of consumer electronics. I know because I\u2019ve personally built bespoke data gathering devices for clients out of cheap Chinese consumer electronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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