‘Starve Before Doing Business With the Damned Navy’: The US Navy Spent $200,000,000 on a Stealth Warship That Only Had a Crew of 4 But Ended Up as Scrap as Even Museums Didn’t Want It

‘Starve Before Doing Business With the Damned Navy’: The US Navy Spent $200,000,000 on a Stealth Warship That Only Had a Crew of 4 But Ended Up as Scrap as Even Museums Didn’t Want It

The Sea Shadow was a $200 million black program, built between 1984 and 1985 by Lockheed for DARPA and the Navy at Redwood City, California. It remained secret until 1993. After the Soviet Union collapsed the Navy cut the contract, and in 2012 the ship was sold for scrap because there were no other takers.