Dr Bernd Atenstaedt, the chief executive of German Industry UK (
GIUK) and UK director of the Federation of German Industries, will also be at the conference to advise British companies looking for tie-ups with German counterparts.
Submarines, both nuclear and conventional, would be passively employed in "barriers" in the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (
GIUK) gaps.
For example, "Russia's increased underwater activity around the so-called
Giuk gap, an area around Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom, where Russian submarines have been a more common presence."
Navy's Mk 60 CAPTOR (enCAPsulated TORpedo) mines in the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom "
GIUK Gap" during the Cold War.