The Russian spy ship in Britain’s waters preparing ground for war

The last British submarine known to have severed a cable was HMS Conqueror in 1982. Fresh from firing the missiles that sank Argentina’s Belgrano in the Falklands War, it cut an acoustic array trailed by a Soviet trawler... Similar efforts are likely under way today, said Dr Sidharth Kaushal of the Royal United Services Institute think tank. “I would be surprised if… efforts to outcompete each other just short of the threat of war by both Russian submariners and Western ones are not occurring.”