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Started by Kiran Menachery
The discussion explores the growing strategic and commercial importance of the deep sea. It focuses on the military competition over underwater infrastructure, such as internet cables and pipelines, alongside the expanding commercial market for underwater robotics and autonomous submarines used for resource extraction and climate monitoring.
China and Russia are fighting a war 6,000 meters underwater, and no one has a clue. Deep sea defense is now the new battleground for the US, spent who is spending $214 billion just on submarines in the next decade, just to maintain their underwater dominance. Here's why I think it matters. Whoever controls the ocean floor controls the power that the internet cables that run between continents and oil pipelines. Companies like Kraken Robotics are building underwater robots and autonomous submarines with batteries that last 200 times 200% longer than current sonar, than current sonar and…