🇮🇱⚔️🇹🇷🇪🇬Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who served 30 years in a US prison for passing classified Navy intelligence to Israel, is now running for the Knesset and named Türkiye and Egypt as Israel's next major strategic threats.

Türkiye and Egypt are coming up next as our major strategic threat in the north and south.

Unless we have all these other fronts eliminated by that time, we're going to be in a terrible situation.

He said Israel must first take Iran "off the map, so to speak" and warned:

I'm not so sure we will have as easy a time with the Turks as we've had with the Iranians.

He called the coming confrontation inevitable:

The storm is coming.

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🏦 🇺🇸 💵 Bessent could tap near $1 trillion Treasury General Account to fund bond buybacks, sources said

The Treasury could use its General Account to help fund purchases of government bonds, according to two senior Treasury officials.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has built up the TGA to around $950 billion currently.

The Treasury surprised markets last week by doubling the size of bond buybacks, but the impact on yields was short-lived because of skepticism over the firepower available to Bessent.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/24/bessent-1-trillion-treasury-general-account-bond-buybacks.html

🚤 🇺🇸 🏹 Six months of engineering and systems integration with Lockheed Martin led to the first live-fire demonstration in Saildrone history.

At RIMPAC, SD-3001 launched two JAGM missiles while operating with US Navy assets.

This demonstration is the first of a series of planned integrations ahead of the launch of Saildrone’s largest and most advanced USV—the Saildrone Spectre. Measuring 52 meters (170 feet), the Spectre is designed to accommodate much larger, containerized mission sets and payloads. Future capabilities for this platform include the integration of the Lockheed Martin Mk 70 launcher and various towed arrays designed to support anti-submarine warfare operations.

Spectre, the first of which is under construction, will weigh around 300 tonnes with full payload, and capable of speeds of up to 30 knots. The USV features a concealed payload deck that accommodates up to five 20-foot containers or two 40-foot containers, making it well-suited to carry any number of the combat-tested effectors produced by Lockheed Martin, thereby satisfying a wide range of mission sets and operational requirements. Spectre’s two variants, with or without the patented Saildrone Wing, offer optionality between near-silent transits for acoustically sensitive missions or a low profile for high-speed kinetic strikes.

The 20-meter (66-foot) Surveyor USV can operate autonomously in the world’s harshest environments, remaining on mission and on station for months at a time. The Saildrone Surveyor utilizes radar, EO/IR, ML-based detection, passive acoustics, and AIS to maintain continuous situational awareness alongside the newly integrated JAGM dual launcher.

The work continues: https://www.saildrone.com/news/us-navy-rimpac-lockheed-martin-advance-autonomous-warfare