What Is the Yantar Doing Near Britain?

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00:00What's your understanding of what the Yantar is doing on the edge of British waters?

00:05Well, the Yantar is becoming a familiar visitor to shores off Britain.

00:12It's a specialist intelligence vessel.

00:14It's a highly capable surveillance platform which can look at the seabed.

00:19It can analyse. It can map.

00:22It can also put little drones down to actually look at what's going on on the bottom.

00:26It's also hoovering up all sorts of electronic emissions.

00:30It can intercept signals, intelligence, communications, things like that.

00:34And so if you've got a radar operating, for example, then it'll pick up all the characteristics of that radar.

00:39It'll listen to mobile phone calls. It'll listen to all sorts of unguarded communications.

00:44It's a prime intelligence resource, and we've known it for a long time.