U.S. resumes drone flights over Black Sea after Russia intercept

An RQ-4 Global Hawk flew a mission to the region on Friday,

With a flight of F-35 just outside radar detection range I hope

The United States has resumed surveillance drone flights over the Black Sea

Good.

U.S. resumes drone flights over Black Sea after Russia intercept

Russia will resumes fuel spray, few galons of fuel that really cheap for taking down millions dollar of drone. That's really cost efficient compared take down a baloon with an expensive missiles, even experienced there was miss with that.

Russia will resumes fuel spray, few galons of fuel that really cheap for taking down millions dollar of drone. That's really cost efficient compared take down a baloon with an expensive missiles, even experienced there was miss with that.

Not when you crash your junk fighters in the process of trying to clip the drone. Also I am glad environmental catastrophe is just another way of saying Russian normal operating procedures at this point.

The video proves, once again, as usual, that Russia is lying.

Unprofessional flying by Russian pilots, but I have no doubt they were ordered to get the drone down without using weapons.

Turkey is considering allowing US warships into the Black Sea again. I haven't seen any decision about that, just that they are considering it.

US drones will stop flying straight and level when hostile fighters approach. If they are going to go down, they should try to damage the hostile aircraft flying too closely. The times of sharing the skies are over.

The video proves what Russia did for the world to see. They should be embarrassed.

Russia attacked a NATO country.

Unprofessional flying by Russian pilots

Quite vice versa - highly professional! Brilliant! It were the Americans who decided that they could do everything anywhere in the world. Petty provocateurs

Quite vice versa - highly professional! Brilliant! It were the Americans who decided that they could do everything anywhere in the world. Petty provocateurs

Because they can. They can fly wherever they want in international airspace. Maybe the US airforce should act "professional" and start shooting down Russian planes in international airspace.

Because they can. They can fly wherever they want in international airspace.

Yes.

Maybe the US airforce should act "professional" and start shooting down Russian planes in international airspace.

Biden will never go that far.

The Black Sea is covered by the S400, so no F-22s or F-35s can enter.

Fun fact: those aren't the only planes in the US arsenal.

Biden will never go that far.

Right, because that would be pretty stupid. Just like Russia downing the drone.

As usual you do not know what you are talking about,I am not disputing the account,but GPS Coordinates would be all the evidence,unless the US is spying for Ukrainain,these drone take off and head from the Romanian coast toward Crimea

It is far harder to cover a lie, than to expose the truth. Putin can't squirm his version of Russia out of this one. While I may not appreciate everything the US military may end up having to do, I do trust in their ability to have actual authentic proof and evidence to back up claims like this.

Next time the US should explode their drone and take out the fighter planes,

sure they can try good luck again,I am pretty sure that Russia have enough of stock of airplane fuels to use again.

efficient and cheap way how to neutralize US drones

It's not gasoline, it's more expensive than that. If you are fine with Russia being associated with environmental crimes in addition to war crimes, I guess you would applaud this.

2: The US is unable to convince fellow NATO member Turkey to allow the US NAVY to enter the Black Sea.

Russia is also unable to convince Turkey for their warships to leave the Black Sea, so it's not really a US directed thing.

showing a Russian Su-27 fighter jet coming very close to the drone and dumping fuel near it,

Very close to and near it.

see how small changes in small words happen?

what happened to actually hitting it and also dumping fuel on it?

shooting down

This phrase again.

nothing was “shot down”.

Russia playing with fire can get burned the best thing to do is as soon as the Russian aircraft decides to spill fuel it could be a deadly game all the drone had to do is shoot a flare and the fuel trail will go right back to that Russian aircraft making it a ball of fire

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Quite vice versa - highly professional! Brilliant! It were the Americans who decided that they could do everything anywhere in the world. Petty provocateurs

Because they can. They can fly wherever they want in international airspace. Maybe the US airforce should act "professional" and start shooting down Russian planes in international airspace.

It's international airspace. The Black Sea itself belongs to no one. Not to Turkey, not to Ukraine, not to Moldova, not to Russia. Anybody can utilize, sail and fly in the area. Just like the Gulf of Sidra also is international waters and not a Libyan bay as Qaddafy defined it.

The information obtained by these drones is used by Ukraine in their attacks against Russia. And Russia had declared a flight restricted zone in this area, so we can expect any future drone to meet the same fate.

Still, the downing of a U.S. MQ-9 drone on Tuesday was the first direct U.S.-Russian incident since the Ukraine war began, worsening already tense relations between Washington and Moscow as both countries publicly traded blame.

It might be the first direct incident, but only if you ignore the bombing of Nord Stream pipelines.

Russia attacked a NATO country.

So did the US, when they bombed the pipelines…

nothing was “shot down”.

A distinction without a difference. Regardless of how they did it, they clearly caused it to fall out of the sky, and that was very stupid. Weird how the "America first" crowd is again putting America last.

The information obtained by these drones is used by Ukraine in their attacks against Russia. 

Attacks against Russia? Lolol no, they're defending themselves. There wouldn't be drones there if Russian troops just stayed in Russia. Pathetic.

And Russia had declared a flight restricted zone in this area, so we can expect any future drone to meet the same fate.

Who cares what the lying liars in thee Russian government "declare." They've no right to dictate how international airspace is used. Pathetic.

all the drone had to do is shoot a flare and the fuel trail will go right back to that Russian aircraft making it a ball of fire

Yippee-ki-yay, great movie. If this can actually be done they should do it, it would be brilliant.

The information obtained by these drones is used by Ukraine in their attacks against Russia.

This fellow still believes that Ukraine attacked Russia. Someone want to tell him?

Blacklabel: This phrase again.

What are you calling it?

USA claims full rights over the Black Sea and Sea of China and Pacific Ocean and Artic.

A collision that has not been confirmed as intentional or unintentional.

exactly what the US military rep called it.

Regardless nothing was “shot down” and no fuel was dumped on the drone according to this new article.

No, it's used for attacks against Russian targets in Ukraine. There's a huge difference.

The information obtained by these drones is used by Ukraine in their attacks against Russia. And Russia had declared a flight restricted zone in this area, so we can expect any future drone to meet the same fate

A collision that has not been confirmed as intentional or unintentional.

It's pretty hard to claim it was "accidental" when the Russian Defense Ministry is awarding medals to the pilots involved.

It's very odd how the "America first" crowd continue to run defense for Russia.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/18/russia-gives-awards-to-fighter-pilots-involved-in-us-drone-crash

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-awards-fighter-pilots-us-drone-crash-incident/

It's very odd how the "America first" crowd continue to run defense for Russia.

It's incredible how MAGA translates into supporting Russia destroying a US plane in international waters. One such American Vatnik here even claimed to have served in the US forces.

USA claims are just a wet dream and have no place in reality

You just said the drone was in international airspace. USA claims are quite literally what UNCLOS says.