In the last hours, two videos have appeared around the collision of a Russian Su-27 fighter and an American MQ-9 Reaper drone. about him Black Sea Last Tuesday. One of them is an animated recreation made by the North American chain CBS in which the impact between the two planes is reconstructed. Moscow assures that the fall of the American drone was the result of “a sudden maneuver” after which it lost control, while Washington He replies that he was forced to shoot down the aircraft after suffering a rear propeller collision with the Kremlin fighter.
The other video is a recording -of only four seconds- broadcast on a Telegram channel by the pro-russian Fighterbomber account Recorded from the flight deck of an Su-27 fighter. The images show a flyover of the Russian plane that passes very close to a US Air Force Reaper without any friction. The date of the video has not been verified, but it shows the difference in flight speed of both aircraft.
This fact has been pointed out as a possible cause of the crash. The drone slowed down by adjusting its speed so the Su-27 unintentionally rammed it. The Russian planes, in this short video, are also not positioned in front of the Reaper nor do they pass by him several times, as has been said in the United States. Obviously, this recording does not invalidate the version offered by the Pentagon and may be an interested leak from one of the parties about the incident. The US Department of Defense is studying the declassification of the video, so it could broadcast the longer recording in the coming days to accompany its vision of what happened.
Video of the encounter of a Russian Su-27 fighter and the Reaper drone.
Meanwhile, new information about the incident continues to come to light. An anonymous US military official told PBS that the crash between the Russian plane and the drone “it was not a controlled contact” and that the Russian pilot was “running towards the drone” and “out of control” when he struck the Reaper’s propeller. “It’s not something you would see a professional driver do. It was a fan thing,” added the official quoted by TheWarZone.
Video with the CBS recreation of the collision between the two planes.
The tension unleashed by this incident near the Crimea finely a telephone conversation between Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, held this Wednesday, in which both made clear different positions. Austin stressed that the United States will continue to fly and operate where international law allows. Shoigu, for his part, pointed out that the incident was caused by US actions by exceeding the flight restriction zone established by Russia. “It is noted that the American flights of strategic UAVs off the coast of Crimea are provocative in nature, which creates the preconditions for the escalation of the situation in the Black Sea area,” the Russian Defense Ministry noted. .