Blind Man's Bluff - Book from Amazon, and also a youtube doco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0X8ROMSUw
I suppose having a working POC is also a good idea if they need to scale up more of them to protect/regularly repair the cables.
I can’t imagine a single ship being able to effectively monitor undersea cables.
But I can imagine a mothership deploying semi-autonomous persistent drones and sensors to detect and someday possibly even disrupt/destroy threats to the cables.
A simple CARVER matrix says the cables are far harder to defend than attack.
However, the potential attackers are limited to a very small number of sovereign states with the capability to detect/disrupt cable traffic and a larger but still small number of sovereign states with the capability of destroying cable traffic.
How do you bug a fiber optic cable? Solve that problem and then place an underwater drone alongside.
Would junctions be a point of vulnerability?
I am no expert but I would hope that satellites are now used for defence based communication.
If a war gets to the point where nation states are cutting each other’s undersea cables, I think satellites are coming down too
