America’s National Security Scam Rolls On

US Navy Super Hornet "Sub Buster" Marking Hints At Iranian Submarine Kill Military aviation and defense news website The Aviationist reports that a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet returned from Operation Epic Fury carrying a "Sub Buster" marking, raising the possibility that a carrier-based fighter jet was credited with an Iranian submarine kill. Photographs taken by Jeff Rojas and highlighted last week by The Aviationist show a broken-submarine victory marking, potentially the first such decoration on a Super Hornet. The Aviationist explained: Iran lost a large number of its submarine force during Operation...

Ukraine Regained Territory After Cutting Russia's Black Market Starlink Terminals According to a newly declassified U.S. defense intelligence assessment first reported by Bloomberg, Moscow’s frontline command-and-control structures suffered a catastrophic blackout earlier this year due largely to coordinated crackdown that disabled thousands of black market Russian Starlink terminals. The Pentagon document highlights just how deeply Russian forces had come to rely on Elon Musk's commercial satellite terminals to patch over their own spotty military communication systems. For months, Russian units bypassed international sanctions via shadow supply networks to source the hardware. The...