The U.S. military says a Russian war plane clipped one of its unmanned Reaper drones in international airspace over the Black Sea, forcing the U.S. to bring it down. NBC News’ Dan de Luce explains how U.S. officials say the incident unfolded and what could happen to the wreckage of the drone.
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Well buddy your Russian war ships were operating very close to the us border not too long ago! And we never dumped fuel on them or rammed them.
Why dump the fuel? Maybe to try and flood the engine?
United state of America if you meet a balanced opponent (Russia), America can only protest and give sanctions that are not as great as Hollywood films
You would think as much as these things cost , the military would have a self destruct system on board , or does that not make sense
does Usa have an unseen state somewhere there?…. what was its purpose why the drone was flying over there?…. toying around? or spying around…… the hypocrisy of that country is so drowning
The launch of the drone was the only unprofessional act in this incident.
They are scared because they know the US will easily win a nuclear war.
Evil does not care about international rules or decent behavior. We saw that during the last 384 days……..
What were provocateurs doing 10,000 km from their borders?
Our authorities must respond strongly to Putin’s every move, and the respond lies in military support for Ukraine!
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I don't understand why America doesn't react to this. First, the drone, then Russia decides it has the right to enter American territory. This is not far off from war.
we must not allow military conflicts to break out around the world. if we stop sending weapons now and turn a blind eye to Putin's crimes it will unleash the hands of other dictators and they will start attacking.
Biden admin is so weak that the ruskeys are anticipating us not to do squat that is not how you deal with bullies
A thief never wants a confrontation. A thief wants to steal.
Russian drone near San Francisco? How? On a baloon? 😂 You know the reaction already.
They wont confront USA but they did it!
That’s just it there are not high stakes. It’s a grace Russia is barely holding its own in Ukraine. If we shoot down a Russian plane nothing will happen except Russia won’t harass our assets. We have weak liberal men in power.
Well looks like Russia needs a confrontation. Turkey shot down a Russian warplane a few years ago and Russia improved their behavior that’s what a masculine man does when pushed. We have a girly liberal man in Biden.
I love Russians always use whataboutism to justify the f* ups they do. "WHAT ABOUT THAT TIME YOU DID X?"
It’s a sad day when ww3 was started due to a young soldier’s lack of trained knowledge and made an attack by error $$$$$
Have Americans already forgotten what happened to a Chinese weather balloon when it was about to enter US air space ?!?
How short are your memories ?!?
And you have the audacity of complaining about a Reaper drone being downed in an active theatre of conflict near the Russian border ?!?
How stupid are ya…. ?
"Unprofessional manner"… Yeah right… It's so lame that USA government has self-confidence in impunity…
Why not shoot the Russian fighter plane down as soon as possible
Russia doesn't want confrontation but invades Ukraine.
looks like it was near the crimean peninsula according to the interview.
How close to the Russian coast was it, they should show where in the Black Sea the intercept took place, if it was just outside territorial waters which is still pretty close to Russia it could be seen as a provocation just like the ambassador said what if a Russian drone was just off the coast of San Francisco what would the US do? I noticed they showed a map of the Black Sea but not where the intercept took place or where the drone is believed to be in the Black Sea.
America needs to mind its own business. America started this whole thing by playing games with talks about Ukraine being a part of Nato. Would we allow China or Russia to set up shop in Canada or Mexico? U know the answer. So why would Russia allow Ukraine to enter Nato. That would lead to Russia having there enemies right on there doorstep. For all the idiots who don't know history…..Cuban missle crisis.
Biden and his cronies are about to bungle us into World War III… a war we'd lose under him! On the one hand he is intentionally trying to destroy American dominance, while on the other still acting like America is the dominant nation that we have been since the end of WWII. The rest of the world is laughing at us!
It's impressive that a stupid Russian can fly a plane at all.
So let me get this straight? We had a spy plane/drone – which could hold bombs – flying over or in the very near vicinity of Russia (who is in the middle of a war, mind you). They took it down… and we are claiming they were being aggressive? I call bs on this! Lord knows I don't want to side with Russia, but COME ON!
Anatoly needs a good barber.
Russia needs an election !
So, in other words, we were spying on Russia, and now we're playing the victim because they took our spy drone down. Just call a spade a spade. We all know that the USA spies on Russia. We're not ashamed of it. We expect it. Just tell the truth.
Bomb a Russian held enclave in Ukraine. Sounds fair to me.
Мы отправили Стивена Чайку в Россию, чтобы подавить восстание против Путина. Путин надеется научиться у Стиви новым боевым искусствам. Путину нужно будет научиться гораздо большему, чем боевые искусства, если его конец окажется в тюрьме «Черный дельфин». О, ну пусть будет. Путин. Шпатлевка. Путини, Пуш батти, Путтан мужик с веревкой и банкой.
So what if it caused Russia plan to go down instead? B.S.
That happens when you send your drones a liiittle far from home…
If the Reaper drone was in international airspace why didn't it have its transponder on? It seems to me that advertising its location would actually serve as a good way to deter accidental or intentional intercepts.
clearly if i see this problem on the news station then this iz a problem that can not be fixed in how people act react to different countries all over the internet to know
It looks the paper tiger is pretending this is not a big deal – just poor piloting. Russia is teaching China how to handle such scenarios. Nice.
Hey Russia, you can have USA's 32 million dollar drone. What else do you want Russia. USA isn't going to do anything.
Brinkmanship
The Russia claim that they didn't bumming or shoot US. drone down, but drone is turn back sharply (turned 180 degrees) that cause drone out control then down. The US. should show footage of drone camera, if the Russia claim is true or not. 🙂