Russian fighter forces down US drone close to Ukraine

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Russian fighter jets collided with the rear propeller of an unmanned U.S. military drone on Tuesday, forcing the U.S. to bring down the drone into the waters off the Black Sea, U.S. officials said.

U.S. European Command labeled the incident as "dangerous" and said it could "lead to miscalculation and unintended escalation."

"At approximately 7:03 AM (CET), 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," U.S. European Command said in a statement.

"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," it added.

EUCOM said the incident "demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russian-fighter-forces-us-drone-close-ukraine/story?id=97855821

 

So umm, can we recover it before they do? 

[Dashinka 24,480]

Depends on where it went down.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

A little propaganda much ?

 

EUCOM said the incident "demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional." 

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[Dashinka 24,480]

11 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

A little propaganda much ?

 

EUCOM said the incident "demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional." 

I believed they emphasized this was entirely environmentally unsound.  I guess wars also need to have an ESG score.

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On 3/15/2023 at 6:31 AM, Dashinka said:

I believed they emphasized this was entirely environmentally unsound.  I guess wars also need to have an ESG score.

What, dumping fuel on a foreign government's property?