ארה"ב משיקה מחדש פעילות ריגול תת ימית כדי להתמודד עם איומי סין

The U.S. Navy started reviving a spy program last year, designed to counter submarine threats. According to people with direct knowledge of the plan, it's worth billions of dollars, sits on an island just 50 miles north of Seattle, and has the biggest monitoring range of any similar program since the end of the Cold War. What's driving the revival? In recent years, the Chinese military has been aggressive in trying to intimidate Taiwan. Beijing claims the island as its own, and has not ruled out the use of force to take control of it. But how does the island play into U.S. national security? Taiwan sits on the first island chain, blocking China from accessing deep waters off its coast. Those waters would prove essential if Beijing wanted to launch and conceal armed submarines and attack the U.S. Back to the Navy's plan, the submarine spy program itself is top secret, designed to monitor the submarines of the former Soviet Union, its first and only public appearance happened in 1991, at the end of the Cold War. The surveillance network can collect data through unmanned sea drones and underwater satellite sensors.