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Russian jet collides with US worker over Black Sea: Pentagon
- Updated: March 15, 2023
WASHINGTON:
A Russian SU-27 warrior jet crashed into a US Reaper worker in general airspace above a Black Sea, causing a American aircraft to crash, a Pentagon pronounced Tuesday.
The occurrence occurred after a Russian jet and another SU-27 “conducted an vulnerable and unsuited intercept” of a Reaper, including transfer fuel on a worker and drifting in front of it “in a reckless, environmentally invalid and unsuited manner.”
The worker was conducting reconnoitering when one of a SU-27 jets struck a propeller of a MQ-9 Reaper during roughly 7.03 a.m. CET (0603GMT), call a drone’s operators to move it down in general waters.
US European Command pronounced a occurrence “demonstrates a miss of cunning in further to being vulnerable and unprofessional.”
“Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting slight operations in general airspace when it was intercepted and strike by a Russian aircraft, ensuing in a pile-up and finish detriment of a MQ-9,” US Air Forces Europe Commander Gen. James B. Hecker pronounced in a statement.
“This vulnerable and unsuited act by a Russians scarcely caused both aircraft to crash. US and Allied aircraft will continue to work in general airspace and we call on a Russians to control themselves professionally and safely,” he added.
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President Joe Biden has been briefed on a matter by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, pronounced a White House, that confirmed that a US would not be deterred from conducting destiny aerial missions in a region.
“We’re going to continue to fly and work in general airspace over general waters. The Black Sea belongs to no one nation, and we’re going to continue to do what we need to do for a inhabitant confidence seductiveness in that partial of a world,” National Security Council orator John Kirby told reporters.
The Pentagon pronounced a occurrence is partial of a wider settlement “of dangerous actions by Russian pilots while interacting with U.S. and Allied aircraft over general airspace, including over a Black,” warning they risk “miscalculation and unintended escalation.”