For a second straight day on Thursday, Russian fighter jets harassed American military drones flying over eastern Syria by dropping parachute-borne flares in their flight path, the Pentagon says.
flying over eastern Syria by dropping parachute-borne flares in their flight path, the Pentagon said.
The video shows a Russian Su-35 fighter jets positioning itself in front of an MQ-9 Reaper before dropping parachute-borne flares into its flight path, officials said. "Russian aircraft dropped flares in front of the drones and flew dangerously close, endangering the safety of all aircraft involved," Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, the top U.S. Air Force commander in the Middle East, said in a statement about Thursday's incident.
On Wednesday, a declassified video released by the Pentagon of that day's encounter showed Russian aircraft doing the same thing to three Reaper drones but from a front-facing point of view. The U.S. has roughly 900 American troops in eastern Syria assisting in the fight against ISIS, Russia has a military presence in northwestern Syria as part of a mission to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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