Earlier this year, China’s Ministry of State Security hacked into an unnamed defense contractor working for Rhode Island’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Billions of dollars worth of military technology secrets are in the hands of the enemy. Not one single network media outlet is telling the American people anything about it.
The contractor was working on the “Sea Dragon” project. Sub-launched, supersonic missiles costing billions are being installed through the Virginia-class submarine fleet, but the theft of their data was hushed up and swept under the rug with zero explanation.
The Chinese took advantage of poor security that was defending an unclassified network and managed to remove over 600 gigabytes of files.
One by one, each was unclassified. When you put them all together, it means a devastating compromise of top-secret ultra-advanced technology relied on across the armed forces.
Nobody is admitting publicly that the core of the system is the same SM-6 air defense missile “designed to be launched by U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers to defend the fleet from cruise missiles, manned aircraft, unmanned aircraft, and even short-range ballistic missiles.”
Intended to give Navy subs a new “disruptive offensive capability,” Sea Dragon “combines an existing U.S. Navy platform with an existing capability.” The generic air defense missile can be adapted to targeting ships.
