US releases footage of its drone colliding with Russian aircraft | Fountain: EFE
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The US Army European Command on Thursday released declassified footage of an incident between a Russian Su-27 fighter jet and an American drone over the Black Sea, which resulted in the crash of the drone.
According to the command USA The statement in the images shows the moment when “a Russian aircraft carried out an unsafe and unprofessional intercept Drone MQ-9 air force USA in international airspace over the Black Sea on 14 March.
US Command is also offering a storyboard of how this incident in the Black Sea, which involved another Russian fighter jet, escalated tensions between Washington and Moscow and is based on the war in Ukraine.
Russian plane collides with US drone
According to the script of this video, the event begins when the Russian aircraft is approaching the rear of the American “MQ-9”. Shortly thereafter, the Kremlin aircraft begins to spit fuel on its way and in doing so flies over drone.
Just a few minutes later, the Russian Su-27 begins its second rendezvous with the MQ-9, releases fuel again and passes even closer to the unmanned vehicle.
Shortly thereafter, the Russian plane collided with drone and the image from the MQ-9 camera is lost for about 60 seconds, according to the US command. When the camera re-transmits, it can be seen that the propeller and one of the drone’s legs are damaged.
After the incident, the government USA He assured that he was forced to crash the drone in the waters of the Black Sea, and blamed Moscow for the incident, which he said was deliberate.
Instead, the Russian Ministry of Defense denied the contact of its fighters with a drone, which, according to the Kremlin, suddenly went into uncontrollable flight and crashed into the sea, losing altitude sharply.
The incident took place near the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, where Moscow denounces the presence of NATO, whether it be warships or intelligence and surveillance equipment.
(As reported by EFE)
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