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USAF reportedly sent another spy drone to MQ-9 crash site shortly after Black Sea incident
USAF reportedly sent another spy drone to MQ-9 crash site shortly after Black Sea incident
The USAF reportedly sent another spy drone to the MQ-9 crash site shortly after the Black Sea incident to monitor Russia’s efforts to recover the wreckage.
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The US military sent another drone shortly after the incident, an MQ-9 Reaper drone, the same model that crashed in the Black Sea on Tuesday, US media reported. The drone was reportedly sent to survey the crash site and monitor Russia’s efforts to recover the wreckage, according to the cited US officials. Moreover, the US is preparing to fly another drone over the Black Sea in the coming days, the officials added. echoing earlier statements by the US State Department that its drone missions in international airspace would continue. “Risk Assessment” Meanwhile, the incident has prompted the US to “take a hard look” at its drone routes. and is generally evaluating its drone operations in the Black Sea area, the same US officials were quoted as saying. The media report indicates that the Pentagon, along with its European command, despite their bold statements about continuing drone missions, intends to analyze and weigh the overall costs and benefits of such surveillance missions. As part of this assessment, an experiment will presumably be performed. intended to weigh the reconnaissance value of a particular route and, accordingly, to justify the advance of reconnaissance flights in an area fraught with further escalation with Russia. Meanwhile, a number of US officials have claimed that the drone’s operators have remotely deleted all sensitive information. US media reported on Wednesday that Russia allegedly found some debris, including pieces of fiberglass or small pieces of a drone. A US MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed into the Black Sea after a collision. sharp maneuvers as Russian fighter jets tried to identify a plane flying towards Crimea with transponders turned off. The fact is that the US does not recognize Russia’s claim to Crimea, which was reunited with Russia in 2014. During the nationwide referendum held on March 16 of that year, more than 95% of the voters of Crimea and Sevastopol voted in favor. Reunification with Russia after decades of estrangement. The US position means it does not recognize any claims by Russia to establish no-fly zones in support of its ongoing military operations against Ukraine. Referring to Tuesday’s incident, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the Su-27 fighter jet was shot down. tracking an unidentified MQ-9 Reaper drone heading towards the Russian border. A US drone crashed in international waters in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea as a result of a sharp maneuver. The Ministry of Defense of Russia clarified that the plane sent to intercept the Russian aircraft did not come into contact with the drone, nor did it use weapons against it. However, US European Command claimed that a Russian aircraft shot down the drone during an “unsafe and unprofessional interception”, causing it to go down.
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Earlier, amid a back-and-forth game over the March 14 downing of a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea near Crimea, the U.S. Air Force released declassified footage purported to show the encounter. The video does not seem to substantiate the previous claim of the US about the destruction of the drone as a result of the collision with the Russian plane.
“Risk Assessment”
As part of this assessment, an attempt will allegedly be made to weigh the reconnaissance value of the route in question and, accordingly, to justify advancing reconnaissance flights in an area fraught with further escalations with Russia.
While several U.S. officials claim the drone’s operators remotely erased all sensitive information before it went down into the sea, U.S. media reported Wednesday that Russia allegedly found some debris, including pieces of fiberglass or small pieces. : drone.
