The US military have released footage of Russian fighter jets colliding with a US surveillance drone over the Black Sea. The camera feed cuts out twice in the video, once due to the fuel and once after the collision, the command said. 9News READ MORE:
fighter jet collided with a US Air Force unmanned drone, forcing it to ditch into the Black Sea.
The damaged propeller can be seen when the camera feed comes back online, which EUCOM said took about 60 seconds. On its way down, two US officials told CNN the operators remotely wiped the drone's sensitive software, mitigating the risk of secret materials falling into enemy hands before it crashed into the water.on Wednesday that the drone had not been recovered and that he was "not sure" the US would be able to recover it.Moscow had made clear it would attempt to retrieve the wreckage of the drone, and two officials told CNN that Russia had reached the MQ-9 crash site in the Black Sea.
"This is the prerogative of the military. If they believe that it is necessary for our interests and our security in the Black Sea, they will do it," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
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