The United States is hunting for a Russian nuclear submarine off the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The search has been going on all night.
BLKCAT5 is a call sign normally assigned to drones. But last night, it was re-assigned to a manned spy plane, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon. This call sign reassignment is puzzling.
According to Flight Radar, this craft is a modified Boeing 737 with a crew of nine, designed for maritime reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, anti-submarine, and anti-surface warfare.
The Yucatan is the safest and most drug free state of Mexico, so it makes no sense for this activity to be related to drug trafficking.
A single source, known to be accurate in the past, told me at 8:00 this morning, the US is looking for a Russian submarine. They have repeatedly gone back and forth over the same area to do so, as shown in the close-up below:
From this area of the Gulf, if a Russian submarine were to launch hypersonic missiles, those missiles would have a flight time of less than five minutes before reaching the continental United States.
