The United Kingdom is working on a vast anti-submarine web that aims to cover large parts of the northern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea and help hunt down Russian submarines. 

The Royal Navy is looking to combine traditional anti-submarine methods, including surface combatants and aircraft, with innovative methods, such as unmanned systems and specialized sensors.

On October 15, the British military issued a tender for unmanned and data-driven systems designed for anti-submarine warfare. The tender is the first step toward London’s plan of creating a vast anti-submarine web in the northern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea. The British military seeks to harness the power of artificial intelligence to accelerate detection and targeting, making the area impenetrable to Russian submarines.

London is particularly interested in blocking the key GIUK (Greenland-Iceland-UK) gap that allows ships to enter the Atlantic Ocean from the north.

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