British submarine software developed in Russia and Belarus: The Telegraph

It is noted that the software was supposed to be created by British personnel, but its development was partially outsourced to engineers from Siberia and Minsk.

The publication emphasizes that there are concerns in Britain that the code developed by Russian and Belarusian developers could be used to reveal the location of British submarines. The Telegraph reports that the UK Ministry of Defence has acknowledged the security issue as a serious threat to defense and has launched an investigation.

According to the investigation, the company that outsourced the work on the internal network for nuclear submarine engineers to Russia and Belarus initially kept this information secret. The firm attempted to conceal the location of the workers by giving them false names of deceased Britons.

The publication explains that Rolls-Royce Submarines, which manages the UK's nuclear submarine fleet, sought to update its internal network and subcontracted the work to the digital consulting firm WM Reply.

WM Reply then employed developers from Belarus, one of whom was actually working from home in Tomsk (Siberia), according to documents submitted at the Ministry of Defence's request.

There are now concerns that further UK defense capabilities may have been compromised, as it has emerged that a previous project was also outsourced to developers in Minsk.

Previously, The Times reported that the UK plans to develop weapons to counter Russian nuclear weapons.

In July, the UK Ministry of Defence also announced that it had ordered Martlet (LMM) missiles, some of which will be supplied to Ukraine.