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U.S. MQ-9 Crashes Into Black Sea Following Collision With Russian Fighter Jet

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U.S. MQ-9 Crashes Into Black Sea Following Collision With Russian Fighter Jet
A General Atomics' MQ-9 Reaper, armed with Lockheed Martin GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire missiles flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan (U.S. Air Force Photo)

A U.S. MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday following a collision with Russian fighter aircraft, U.S. Air Forces Europe said in a statement. Officials said two Russian Su-27 aircraft “conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of the General Atomics-built MQ-9 before one of the aircraft struck the drone’s propeller leading U.S. forces to intentionally bring it down into the water. “Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit…

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