VIDEO: Pentagon Releases Footage of Russian Fighter Jet Clipping U.S. Drone and Dumping Jet Fuel
Thursday, March 16, 2023
The Pentagon has released footage of the incident on Tuesday in which a Russian fighter jet collided with an unmanned United States reconnaissance drone over the Black Sea.
“The 42-second color video clip shows two high-speed passes by a Su-27 fighter jet, each time spraying a substance that the Pentagon says is jet fuel on the American MQ-9 Reaper drone," reported the New York Times Thursday morning. "On a final pass, one of the Russian jets collides with the drone, the Pentagon says, and the camera feed is lost for about 60 seconds. The footage released by the Pentagon does not show the collision."
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