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© Thomson Reuters 2023.U.S. resumes drone flights over Black Sea after Russia intercept
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gcbel
With a flight of F-35 just outside radar detection range I hope
Superlib
Good.
sakurasuki
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.
TaiwanIsNotChina
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.
theFu
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.
wallace
Russia attacked a NATO country.
Kuku
Quite vice versa - highly professional! Brilliant! It were the Americans who decided that they could do everything anywhere in the world. Petty provocateurs
Cards fan
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.
bass4funk
Yes.
Biden will never go that far.
Cards fan
Fun fact: those aren't the only planes in the US arsenal.
Cards fan
Right, because that would be pretty stupid. Just like Russia downing the drone.
Yrral
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
HonestDictator
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.
wallace
Next time the US should explode their drone and take out the fighter planes,
TaiwanIsNotChina
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.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Russia is also unable to convince Turkey for their warships to leave the Black Sea, so it's not really a US directed thing.
Blacklabel
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?
Blacklabel
This phrase again.
nothing was “shot down”.
kaimycahl
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
starpunk
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.
Raw Beer
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.
It might be the first direct incident, but only if you ignore the bombing of Nord Stream pipelines.
So did the US, when they bombed the pipelines…
Cards fan
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.
Attacks against Russia? Lolol no, they're defending themselves. There wouldn't be drones there if Russian troops just stayed in Russia. Pathetic.
Who cares what the lying liars in thee Russian government "declare." They've no right to dictate how international airspace is used. Pathetic.
ClippetyClop
Yippee-ki-yay, great movie. If this can actually be done they should do it, it would be brilliant.
This fellow still believes that Ukraine attacked Russia. Someone want to tell him?
Superlib
What are you calling it?
Rodney
USA claims full rights over the Black Sea and Sea of China and Pacific Ocean and Artic.
Blacklabel
A collision that has not been confirmed as intentional or unintentional.
exactly what the US military rep called it.
Blacklabel
Regardless nothing was “shot down” and no fuel was dumped on the drone according to this new article.
fallaffel
No, it's used for attacks against Russian targets in Ukraine. There's a huge difference.
Cards fan
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/
ClippetyClop
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.
TaiwanIsNotChina
You just said the drone was in international airspace. USA claims are quite literally what UNCLOS says.