The Pentagon says the video has been edited for length, but shows events in sequential order.
The European Command of the US Army published this Thursday declassified images of the incident between a Russian “Su-27” fighter and an American drone over the waters of the Black Sea and which ended up causing the unmanned ship to crash .
As reported by the United States command in a statement, the images show the moment in which ” a Russian plane carried out an unsafe and unprofessional interception of an ‘MQ-9’ drone of the US Air Force in international airspace over the Black Sea , on March 14″.
The US command also offers a storyboard of how this incident occurred in the Black Sea, in which there was another Russian fighter , which has increased the tension between Washington and Moscow and which has the war in Ukraine as its background .
According to the script of this video , the event begins when a Russian plane approaches the rear of the American “MQ-9” . Soon after, the Kremlin airship begins to release fuel in its path , and as it does so, it flies above the drone.
In just a few minutes, the Russian “Su-27” begins a second approach towards the “MQ-9” , releases fuel again and passes even closer to the unmanned device.
Shortly after, the Russian plane collides with the drone and the image from the “MQ-9” camera is lost for approximately 60 seconds, the US command reports. When the camera recovers the transmission it can be seen that the propeller and one of the props of the drone are damaged .
Following the incident , the US government claimed it was forced to crash the drone into the Black Sea and blamed Moscow for the incident, which it said was deliberate .
Instead, Russia’s Defense Ministry denied any contact between its fighters and the drone , which, according to the Kremlin ‘s version , went into a sudden uncontrolled flight and crashed into the sea after suddenly losing altitude .
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The incident took place near the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea , where Moscow frowns on the presence of NATO , be it warships or reconnaissance and surveillance devices.
Source: from El Sol de Mazatlán | Noticias Locales, Policiacas, sobre México, Sinaloa y el Mundo – frontpage on 2023-03-16 06:24:38
