Breaking news – A Russian Su-27 fighter jet struck the propeller of a U.S. military “Reaper” surveillance drone on Tuesday, causing it to crash into the Black Sea in an incident condemned as “reckless’ by the U.S. military.
The MQ-9 “Reaper” unmanned aerial vehicle can loiter at up to 50,000 feet for more than 27 hours, gathering intelligence with sophisticated cameras, sensors and radars. It has a 66 foot wingspan, a Honeywell engine, can carry 3,900 pounds of fuel and travel at a speed of 240 knots ‘true air speed’.
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Next time instead of the drone have F35 do this job so the bird wont get a mid air GS
America flies a surveillance drone too close to Russian border and they take it down. How is this news ? 😂
I wonder what the airforce would do if they found a russian drone flying around the gulf of Mexico
Impressive flying skills… it rear ends the drone, clips the tip of just one prop blade and goes between the v wings while doing a fuel dump!
Well in the pilots defense, he could not give the birdie while inverted…
$32M Toy plane?
Flying near Russia to do what?
Looks like drone was very close to land mass
wow…👏👍
очень непрофессионально, однако!
Well let's admit it cost cheaper than chinese balloon. Give us some credits…👍👍👍
😂 Russia so desperate for cannibalising hardware during sanctions that they down drones for recovery. Putin getting desperate much?😅
There was no collision. The MSM is embarrassed by the fact that the Russian jet brought the $ 30 million drone by simply farting on it.
Fun part is United states itself owns two Su-27s they were delivered to the U.S. in 1995 from Belarus.Two more were bought from Ukraine in 2009 by a private company, Pride Aircraft to be used for aggressor training for U.S. pilots. They have been spotted operating over Area 51 for evaluation and training purposes.
So U.S. people can use those planes showing that a Russian plane attacked our drone to blame Russia.
The most diplomatic way to shoot down a drone😁
Russia it's not good yo shoot anything on international aerospace. This is Russias fault.
Russia it's not good yo shoot anything on international aerospace. This is Russias fault.
US wasting trillions on weapons at thewexpense of it's people for world domination
The still photos of the event show clearly the Crimean peninsula . Here the video is heavily edited.
I wanna see russian drones flight near Florida or California
Only fuel hitting that drone! And I love it!😃👍
Funny af
That moment when your top-of-the-line $31-million-dollar military drone got downed without the enemy firing a single shot. 🤣
The Americans shot a balloon with a 630$K AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. The Ruskies took down a drone with a maneuver. Awesome work and great flying🎖 Quite embarrassing as well …
Unprofessional? Seriously? Pilot off the drone without even shot, just by air maneuver. I bet not many people even knew that this is possible
All these skinned crows will be knocked down by Russia..and some of them can be planted on their own territory !!Russian drones do not fly off the coast of Florida or near New York !!In the USA , transgender generals are just idiots !!!
Why not just use guns. Ramming like that risk damaging expensive fighters.
This move is definitely coming into a Hollywood movie soon , air to air fuel dump intercept 💯💯
In certain critical situations nations can implement an exclusionary zone temporarily which extends the borders of international waters in regards to a country’s border, which the Russians did rightly so.
Nobody talking about the ufo on the left side at start of the video?
USA!!!! Get the hell out of our land
Joe really took that Big L 😂😂
So the US spends $450,000 on a missle to take out a Chinese weather balloon that floated across the entire Nation while Russia brings down a $28 million dollar piece of military equipment with some fart spray for just being nearby….
If America and NATO have a head, let them go to war against Russia with a declaration, like a thief, it is a coward's act to strike from behind, if possible, go to war directly against Russia.