Russia could blow up the "north stream" with the help of underwater drone - MO UK

" To do this, used explosive devices dropped into the sea a few weeks before the incident. According to the source in the Ministry of Defense, the most likely scenario was the secret delivery to some sections of gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea of ​​Autonomous Underwater Dron with a useful load. The submarine could be launched from a small vessel, such as fishing, then exploded devices were dropped near the pipes.

"They could stay there for months, waiting for the teams to explode," the source said. He noted that if it is a matter of the hands of the Russians, it means that they have gone to extreme measures, since Russia has no levers of influence to the West, except for one - the sale of natural gas to him. Special pipes are used during the construction of gas pipelines. According to the Nord Stream gas pipeline operator, they are made of 41 mm thick steel and covered with concrete up to 110 mm thick.

Each 12-meter pipeline section weighs about 24 tons. Experts say that many explosives need to be used to damage such structures. Pipelines are torn by underwater explosions, by force comparable to a small earthquake, shock waves are fixed at a distance of up to 1200 km. According to a member of the Swedish seismic network, Bjorn Lund, the explosion force was such that more than 100 kg of dynamite or TNT was required for sabotage. Submarine expert H. I.

Satton notes that the leakage occurred at the sea at a depth of only 70 m. Therefore, he suggested that diversions were most likely carried out with the use of underwater drones and divers, not submarines, which are inappropriate to use at such depths. Tom Sharp, who had served in the royal fleet for 25 years, commanded four warships in conversation with journalists that the use of a fishing vessel to deploy a underwater drone would be a very reasonable way of carrying out hidden sabotage.

He agrees that the explosives could have been delivered to the gas pipelines for a long time to blow it up at the right time. As previously reported, a sharp decrease in pressure in the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline was found by the Russians on September 26. Gas leakage was recorded in Denmark's waters next to Burnholm, which belongs to it. Then the pressure fell on both threads of the Nord Stream - 1 gas pipeline.

On September 27, the Danish military posted a video showing the consequences of accidents: the sea in the area of ​​origins is raging, the width of the spot of contaminated water reaches several hundred meters. The Russian Foreign Ministry was accused of accusing the United States. Denmark Prime Minister Matte Frederixen said that three origins may indicate sabotage at once, because it is difficult to believe in such coincidences.