13-05-2025
Royal Navy's secret sensory weapon to hunt Russian submarines
Deep within the bowels of the Ministry of Defence estate are magnetic tapes containing the acoustic signature of enemy ships and submarines.
The classified material has been gathered by the Royal Navy's 'submarine hunters', or sonar technicians, who have been operating beneath the waves for the past 56 years in the hope that it proves useful in the face of a potentially perilous threat.
Now, in a significant advancement in technology, the data they have gathered could be input into a system that will effectively 'illuminate' the oceans and simplify the hunt for Russian submarines.
Autonomous mini-hunter submarines that can lurk under the sea for months on end will use artificial intelligence to detect and identify concerning sounds as part of the new Lura system,
