New video shows Russian Su-27 fighter jets forcing a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone out of the sky. One jet collides with the drone in a provocative move as it showers the drone with jet fuel. How should the U.S. respond? This morning at 6 from ABC7
An MQ-9 Reaper takes off at Wheeler-Sack Army Air Field in Fort Drum, N.Y., Feb. 14, 2012.A Russian fighter jet collided with the rear propeller of an unmanned U.S. military drone in the international airspace over the Black Sea on Tuesday morning, forcing the U.S. to bring the drone down off the coast ofThe incident, which involved two Russian Su-27 jets, was denounced as "unsafe and unprofessional" by the U.S. State Department.
A U.S. official was equally blunt -- telling ABC News that the Russian pilot who hit the drone, seemingly unintentionally, was acting "reckless and juvenile.", one of the Russian Su-27 aircraft struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing U.S. forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in international waters," EUCOM said in its statement.
"Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9," U.S. Air Force Gen. James B. Hecker, commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa, said in a statement. "In fact, this unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians nearly caused both aircraft to crash.
The collision occurred on the last pass as one of the Su-27s approached the drone at a high rate of speed from behind, according to the official. As the jet pulled up, it collided with the MQ-9's rear propeller. The official said that Russian fighters had sprayed their jet fuel at manned aircraft during previous encounters, but Tuesday's incident was the first time that an attempt had been made to spray an unmanned U.S. military drone.
The U.S. regularly flies manned and unmanned surveillance flights in international airspace close to Ukraine without entering its 12-mile territorial limit.about Russia's invasion of UkraineState Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a Tuesday afternoon briefing that the U.S. was "engaging directly with the Russians" to communicate objections to what he called the country's "unsafe, unprofessional intercept.
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