JUST IN: A Russian fighter jet fired flares at an American drone over Syria on Sunday, damaging its propeller, U.S. officials say
over Syria on Sunday, damaging its propeller, according to U.S. Air Forces Central -- the latest in a string of what military officials have denounced as risky and provocative behavior.
The U.S. military has recently observed what it has called increasingly "unsafe and unprofessional" incidents in the sky. And for two days in a row early this month, officials have said, Russian pilots dropped parachute flares into the paths of U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones, which took evasive maneuvers to avoid damage. Russia claimed the drones had entered airspace designated for a Russian-Syrian counter-drone exercise.
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