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Update from March 16, 11 a.m.:
The US government has now apparently decided to publish a video of the drone incident over the Black Sea.
The recording, which was made from the drone camera, shows two approaches by the Russian jet to the unmanned aerial vehicle.
You can also clearly see how the fighter jet dumps fuel over the drone.
After the second approach and the alleged collision, the video breaks off briefly.
The image then shows the rotor at the rear of the drone, which was damaged by the collision.
The excerpts come from a video with a total length of 30 to 40 minutes, the Pentagon said.
BREAKING: US military releases dramatic declassified video taken by MQ-9 Reaper drone that shows the moment that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with it after attempting to spray the drone with jet fuel.
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US-Russia Drone Incident: US Government Seems Not Intentional
Update from March 16, 10:41 a.m .:
The US government currently assumes that the collision between a US drone and a Russian fighter jet was not deliberately caused.
Ned Price, a spokesman for President Joe Biden's administration, said in an interview with MSNBC.
The video footage would make it appear that the Russian pilot had almost completely lost control of his plane before the collision occurred.
The action shows the pilot's obvious incompetence, Price said.
Drone crash over the Black Sea: US considers video release
Update from March 16, 5:15 a.m
.: After the drone crash over the Black Sea, the US government may want to publish footage of the incident.
"We are still reviewing videos and photos to determine what we can release," US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in Washington on Wednesday (March 15).
The US could use the material to substantiate its claim that a Russian fighter jet rammed an American military drone in the incident.
The Russians had denied any responsibility for the crash and accused the Americans of provocation.
US-Russia drone incident: Austin and Shoigu on the phone
Update from March 15, 7:15 p.m .:
After the incident with an American drone and two Russian fighter jets over the Black Sea, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin held a telephone conversation, according to information from Moscow.
The Russian state agency TASS quoted the Ministry of Defense in Moscow as saying that the talks took place at the initiative of the American side.
An unnamed US official told US broadcaster CNN that Chief of Staff Mark Milley would also be on the phone with his Russian counterpart.
Update from March 15, 12:45 p.m .:
The military expert Gerhard Mangott rated the incident over the Black Sea in an interview with fr.de from IPPEN.MEDIA as “very risky”.
The incident harbors a “great risk of escalation”.
Drone incident between Russia and the USA: Ukrainian security chief sees "Putin's signal"
Update from March 15, 12:05 p.m .:
After a US military drone collided with a Russian jet over the Black Sea, fears of an escalation in the Ukraine war increased.
In any case, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine is convinced that Russia is ready to escalate its war.
Oleksiy Danilov tweeted about the incident: "The incident involving the American Reaper in the Black Sea, provoked by Russia, is Putin's signal to expand the conflict zone with the participation of other parties."
Kiev's military defends US drones over the Black Sea
Update from March 15, 10:15 a.m .:
There is concern that the Ukraine war could spread to other countries.
An incident between US and Russian militaries over the Black Sea fuels such fears.
According to the US military, an unmanned American military drone collided with a Russian fighter jet in international airspace on Tuesday (March 14).
Moscow rejected the allegations and said the drone crashed after a sharp evasive maneuver.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Air Force has defended the use of US reconnaissance drones over the Black Sea.
"The Black Sea is not an inland sea of Russia, as they have occupied the Sea of Azov and consider it theirs," Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said on TV in Kiev.
The countries bordering the Black Sea are also NATO members, including Turkey and Romania, which is why the US drones act there on a legal basis.
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A US drone model "Reaper" has crashed after colliding with a Russian fighter jet.
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Drone incident: Russia rejects US criticism
Update from March 15, 8:05 a.m .:
Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, has defended Moscow against criticism of a Russian fighter jet colliding with a US drone.
"The unacceptable actions of the US military in close proximity to our borders are a cause for concern," Antonov said, according to US media.
One is "very well aware of the tasks for which such reconnaissance and combat drones are used." In his statement, Antonov accused the USA of using such drones to collect information "that will later be used by the Kiev regime, our armed forces and attack territories".
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Russia's Defense Ministry responds to US drone crash
Update from March 14, 8:20 p.m .:
The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied any responsibility for the crash of a US drone over the Black Sea.
The drone was neither shot at nor attacked in any other way, according to a statement distributed by the state agency
TASS
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A Russian Air Force alarm squad was deployed to identify an unknown intruder over the Black Sea.
During a sharp evasive maneuver, the drone rapidly lost altitude and fell into the sea, according to the Russian military.
"The Russian warplanes did not use any onboard weapons, did not come into contact with the UAV and returned safely to their home base."
USA report crash of Reaper drone: ZDF correspondent sees "unusual provocation"
Update from March 14, 8:12 p.m .:
The incident over the Black Sea, in which a Russian “Su-27” fighter jet and an American “MQ-9 Reaper” drone collided over international waters, are causing concern around Ukraine -War caused a stir.
According to ZDF Washington correspondent Claudia Bates, this is a one-off incident.
“Such encounters in international airspace do happen.
But this is an unusual provocation by the Russian pilots.
The drone was traveling in international airspace and would have carried out a routine operation there," Bates reported in the "heute journal", citing the US armed forces.
"The pilots would have first dumped fuel over the drone and then just grazed it, which meant that the Americans had to take it out of the sky.
And that is actually a one-off process.”
Russian fighter jet collides with US drone: Black Sea incident concerned
The US would make it very clear "that Russia acted here on purpose and condemned it very strongly," Bates said.
According to the ZDF Washington correspondent, the respective foreign ministries would first contact each other to clarify the background to the military incident.
The "MQ-9 Reaper" drone is a reconnaissance drone, but it can also carry air-to-surface missiles.
Russian jet rams US drone in 'unsafe and unprofessional' manner
First report from March 14:
Frankfurt – In the middle of the Ukraine war, a dangerous incident occurred over the Black Sea.
According to US information, a Russian fighter jet collided with a US Reaper drone.
Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets intercepted the drone on Tuesday (March 14) in an "unsafe and unprofessional" manner over international waters, the US Forces Regional Europe Headquarters in Stuttgart (EUCOM) said.
Dangerous collision over the Black Sea: Russian jet crashes US drone
During the incident, one of the fighter jets touched the drone's propeller.
She then fell down.
"Our MQ-9 aircraft was performing routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and rammed by a Russian aircraft," said US Air Force General James Hecker.
"That led to a crash and the complete loss of the MQ-9." Because of the "dangerous and unprofessional" actions of the Russians, the Russian fighter jet almost crashed too.
Eucom explained that before the collision, the Su-27s had already dumped fuel on the drone and were flying in front of the unmanned vehicle.
“This incident shows a lack of competence, in addition to being dangerous and unprofessional.” The Black Sea includes Ukraine, against which Russia is at war, and the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula.
(bb/AFP)
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