Spies Take Aim At America's Navy Drone Fleet

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, AUV's, seen aboard a High Speed Vessel are being tested by the US Military. (Marco Garcia/Getty Images)

Foreign Spies Target Underwater Drone Fleet, Military Spooks Say -- ABC News

When foreign spies set their sights on America's secrets, many times they're not looking underground for secret bunkers or in the sky for massive spy blimps, but under the sea at the nation's low-profile underwater drone fleet.

According to some of the military's top counterintelligence analysts, in recent years there has been a significant increase in both old school spying and cyber operations, especially by unnamed East Asian nations, directed at gaining classified information on America's autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in hopes of undercutting the U.S.'s "underseas battlespace dominance."

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Update #1: Spies target U.S. undersea drone data -- UPI
Update #2: Foreign spies targetting America’s maritime drones, say military spooks -- Truth Dive

My Comment: The report does not say who is doing the spying, but if I was a betting man, my money would be on these guys.