{"id":1888147,"date":"2023-03-16T08:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-releases-footage-showing-russian-jets-harassing-drone-before-collision\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:28:15","slug":"u-s-releases-footage-showing-russian-jets-harassing-drone-before-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-releases-footage-showing-russian-jets-harassing-drone-before-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Releases Footage Showing Russian Jets Harassing Drone Before Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-releases-footage-showing-russian-jets-harassing-drone-before-collision%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1888147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> The Department of Defense released video footage Thursday morning of the incident in which two Russian fighter jets harassed a U.S. military drone over international waters \u2014 leading to a collision and the complete loss of the drone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two Russian Su-27 aircraft conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept with a U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance unmanned MQ-9 aircraft operating within international airspace over the Black Sea on March 14, 2023,&#8221; U.S. European Command made the following statement. &#8220;Russian Su-27s dumped fuel upon and struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing U.S. forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in international waters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> The footage from the drone accident with Russia over Black Sea was published on US army&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ney41fNjGb\">pic.twitter.com\/ney41fNjGb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Elster (@guyelster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guyelster\/status\/1636303898267746307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, U.S. European Command stated that two jets repeatedly harassed the drone during its flight. &#8220;conducting routine operations in international airspace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. and Allied aircraft will continue to operate in international airspace and we call on the Russians to conduct themselves professionally and safely,&#8221; U.S. Air Force Commander Gen. James B. Hecker, commander U.S. Air Forces Europe, and Air Forces Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The statement stated that the incident happened following a &#8220;pattern of dangerous actions&#8221; Russian pilots as they interacted with American and Ally aircraft in international airspace. &#8220;lead to miscalculation and unintended escalation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. Air Forces in Europe \u2013 Air Forces Africa routinely fly aircraft throughout Europe over sovereign territory and throughout international airspace in coordination with applicable host nation and international laws,&#8221; The statement was added. &#8220;In order to bolster collective European defense and security, these missions support Allied, partner, and U.S. national objectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and former head of Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service, (FSB) said that the Russian military would try to retrieve the drone worth $32 million from the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans keep saying that they are not participating in hostilities,&#8221; Patrushev made these claims during a press conference. &#8220;This is yet another confirmation that they are directly involved in these events, in the war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>General Mark Milley stated Wednesday that the U.S. did not consider the incident a war crime. &#8220;Incidents happen,&#8221; Milley\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/incidents-happen-gen-milley-wont-consider-russia-dropping-u-s-drone-an-act-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>. &#8220;And clearly we do not seek armed conflict with Russia and I believe at this point we should investigate this incident and move on from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-releases-footage-showing-russian-jets-harassing-drone-before-collision\">U.S. U.S. releases footage showing Russian Jets Harassing Drones Before Collision<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense released video footage Thursday morning of the incident in which two Russian fighter jets harassed a U.S. military drone over international waters \u2014 leading to a collision and the complete loss of the drone. \u201cTwo Russian Su-27 aircraft conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept with a U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1891392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10119,11948,5254,21866,8069,6171,3965,7238],"class_list":["post-1888147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-collision","tag-drone","tag-footage","tag-harassing","tag-jets","tag-releases","tag-russian","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}