The US military has released extraordinary footage of a Russian jet crashing into one of its drones over the Black Sea. DETAILS: ashleywick9 9News
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.
Two US officials familiar with the intelligence told CNN that senior officials at the Russian Ministry of Defence gave the order for the Russian fighter jets to harass a US drone over the Black Sea this week. Kirby would not confirm the reported development, but said the US had "made it impossible for them to be able to glean anything of intelligence value off the remnants of that drone, whatever remnants there might be on the surface of the water".
In the wake of the incident, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley spoke to their Russian counterparts for the first time since October.
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