WATCH: Pentagon holds briefing after reports Russian war plane hits U.S. forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in international waters.” They said the Russian jets flew around and in front of the drone several times for 30 to 40 minutes, and then one of the Russian aircraft “struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing U.S. European Command said that two Russian Su-27 aircraft dumped fuel on the MQ-9, which was conducting a routine surveillance mission over the Black Sea in international airspace. Here’s what’s known - and uncertain - about the crash. But the Pentagon declined to say whether any effort was underway to gather debris or pieces of the Reaper. But a Pentagon spokesman raised the possibility that the Defense Department could eventually declassify and release video it has of the collision.ĭefense officials said the drone has not been recovered. and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet - each blaming the other. drone conducting surveillance over Black Sea diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) - When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large U.S.
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