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The British military made the discovery after a number of them washed ashore and were located by the Royal Navy. They are being seen as a potential threat to national security.

The situation has not previously been made public but it has been reported in The Sunday Times that Moscow was looking to try and collect intelligence on the UK’s four Vanguard submarines, which carry nuclear missiles.

https://archive.ph/GVHE0

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[-] Yodan@lemm.ee 52 points 1 day ago

I think there's a whole lot of them in suits and ties walking around the white house too

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Some of them not in suits too

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago

They were looking for submarines but thankfully all they found was unusually high levels of sewage contamination

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Somewhere in the North Sea: "Kapitan-Leytenant, we have discovered a new experimental craft called HMS ShitBird, appears to have undetectable propulsion systems and carries a significant biological payload"

Somewhere in Thames Water HQ: "yeah mate we fixed the blockage, we just managed to dislodge Barry from Kettering's massive jobby and let it out into the sea"

[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

why not use them and feed the sensors false data.

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