Sea Dragon (US Navy)

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The Sea Dragon is a supersonic missile that will be used as an anti-ship missile by submarines from 2020 . The system has been in development since 2012 and is said to be based on a well-known but unnamed rocket. Between 2015 and 2018 about 300 million was dollars approved for development. The project became known when 614 gigabytes of data were stolen from an unnamed contractor  . The crack on an unsecured network is said to come from the Chinese Ministry of State Security .

Individual evidence

  1. Ellen Nakashima, Paul Sonne: China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare. The Washington Post, June 8, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018 .
  2. Kyle Mizokami: What Is the Navy's Secret 'Sea Dragon' Weapon? Made public thanks to Chinese hackers, the weapon is supposedly a new offensive missile. Popular Mechanics, June 11, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018 .