Russian fighter jet collides with US drone causing it to crash into Black Sea
Julian Borger and Pjotr Sauer — The Guardian March 14, 2023
A Russian fighter has collided with a US Reaper drone, forcing it down into the Black Sea, in what US forces called an “unsafe and unprofessional” intercept.
A US European Command statement said the collision happened just after 7am on Tuesday morning, when two Russian Su-27 fighter jets flew up to the MQ-9 Reaper drone over international waters west of Crimea. The statement said the Russian pilots sought to disrupt the US aircraft before the collision.
“Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner,” the US statement said. “This incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional.”
One of the Russian fighters then struck the drone’s propeller, “causing US forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in international waters”.
Russia comments on US drone crash in Black Sea
RT.com — March 14, 2023
The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday denied claims by the US military that a Russian interceptor came into contact with the American MQ-9 drone over the Black Sea, causing it to crash.
The UAV was flying towards the Russian border without a transponder active, in clear violation of the restricted area established for the conduct of the special military operation, the ministry said. Two interceptors were dispatched to investigate.
“As a result of sharp maneuvers around 9:30am Moscow time, the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into uncontrolled flight, lost altitude, and collided with the water surface. The Russian fighters did not use weapons, did not come into contact with the UAV, and returned safely to their home base,” the defense ministry said in a statement.
Moscow’s comment came after the US European Command (EUCOM) accused the Russian jets of “an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of the drone. The Americans claimed their spy drone was operating in international airspace when a pair of Su-27 jets appeared, sprayed it with fuel, and “struck the propeller” of the UAV, which caused it to crash into the sea. EUCOM waited almost 12 hours after the incident to comment on it.
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US forces called an “unsafe and unprofessional” intercept. What do you think, using a $100K missile to shoot down that piece of crap ?? Like that brave US Air Force did to the balloon ??
THE UK IS ALREADY COMMUNIST
LONDON CALLING LONDON CALLING
“WHO WAS JOHN GASKIN” ?
John gaskin was the partner of Sir Anthony Blunt
they used to trawl the lavatories late at night at Londons main Rail terminals
looking for young runaways druggies or drunk boys to take back to Blunts flat to abuse.
Gaskin knew of boys being murdered and could not stay quiet, he ” fell”
from a high window onto some railings but survived, his doctor purely by mistake gave him the wrong meds twice which almost killed him, he was knocked down by a taxi but then fell under a train. Gaskin knew all about Blunts treachury and had began to speak out.
Sir Anthony Blunt keeper of the queens pictures while enjoying their hospitality spied on them
for the Soviets long after he said he was finished
He supplied boys to Lord Mountbatten and actor Peter Arne, Peter Arne was in the RAF in w w 2
and said it was a golden time for access to young boys evacuated from London during the war.
Peter arne was an agressive homosexual who after raping boys would feel such self disgust he would be angry and violent like Ronnie Kray.
Lord Victor Rothschild chose his ” Apostles ” from homosexual socialist types
it always amazed me how intellectuals could fall for this crap, that one day the rich
would share their wealth with the poor, Rothschild was a tight as hell, John Caincross
another miser always said yes he was a traitor to the UK but never asked for money,
Boris Kalenkov said Caincross knew damn well there was £60,000 waiting for him in a Moscow bank.
When Philby and Mc ‘clean escaped to Moscow they were horrified to find there was a
greater gap between rich and poor than in Britain.
Its a state secret who supplied boys to Lord Boothby and his boss Winston Churchill
but my money is on Blunt.
This march 26 is the aniversary of Bunts death, this man would take young boys to tea with the Queen Mother, she knew the same as all the royals did what Blunt did to these boys
the same as Jimmy Saville Elton John and Cliff Richards, they destroyed the lives of so many young boys.
Showing the Yankee another weapon he thought almost invulnerable actually can be defeated is always a good middle finger to give. And it wasn’t even shot at, something Russia, China and Iran can all do.
Garland Nixon’s guest Scott Ritter makes some interesting comments about Russia downing the US spy drone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qMcPt7ackY&list=UUkt_q2060zoY6u7_3OwdIWA&index=2
Somebody on another site just made the valid point that this incident shows direct confrontation between Russia and the US is starting.
Worth noting:
“Russian Ministry of Defense:
“On the morning of March 14 2023 over the waters of the Black Sea in the area of the Crimean peninsula, the airspace control of the Russian Aerospace Forces recorded the flight of an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle in the direction of the state border of the Russian Federation.
The flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle was carried out with transponders turned off, violating the boundaries of the area of the temporary regime for the use of airspace, established for the purpose of conducting a special military operation, communicated to all users of international airspace and published in accordance with international standards.
In order to identify the intruder, fighters from the air defense forces on duty were raised into the air. As a result of sharp maneuvering around 9.30 (Moscow time), the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface.
The Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, did not come into contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle and returned safely to their base airfield.””
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yes i saw them several times circling over
black sea in 30 klm altitude on flightradar24
wondering always way Putin did not shoot
them down .
russian baer is to patient .
My deepest condolences to the Reaper’s family and friends,especially “hp”.lol.