This was the harassment of the Russian fighter until it managed to shoot down the US drone in the Black Sea

Last Monday, February 14, aircraft from Russia y USA they staged a moment of high voltage while flying over the Black Sea. A Russian Aerospace Force Su27 fighter harassed a US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper, a remotely manned aircraft (RPAS) that was carrying out control and intelligence tasks over international waters of the aforementioned, until it was shot down and subsequently fell into the sea. sea.

The United States Government made the incident public a few hours after it happened and denounced “a pattern of dangerous actions” by Russian pilotsat a particularly delicate moment due to the escalation of tensions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the zone. Moscow has removed itself from any type of responsibility for the incident and limited itself to accusing Washington of spying for the kyiv Executive.

This Thursday, the European Command of the United States Army or EUCOM, based in the Stuttgart barracks (Germany) has made public some of the images of the incident that they have in their possession. It is about the moments of harassment of the Russian Su27 fighters to his RPAS minutes before the device ended up falling into the sea. The remains of it, percent, have not yet been recovered.

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According to the information provided by EUCOM, which provides a 42-second recording, this is the sequence of events that can be seen in the aforementioned video:

• 00:00. (Start of video) A Russian Su-27 approaches the rear of a US Air Force MQ-9.
• 00:05. A Russian Su-27 begins to release fuel in its wake.
• 00:09. A Russian Su-27 passes over a US Air Force MQ-9 while releasing fuel. When the Su-27 passes over the MQ-9, it also interrupts the video transmission.
• 00:11. The US Air Force MQ-9 propeller can be seen and remains intact.
• 00:22: A Russian Su-27 begins a second approach towards the MQ-9.
• 00:27: A Russian Su-27 begins to release fuel on approach towards the MQ-9. The Su-27 proceeds to pass even closer.
• 00:29: A Russian Su-27 collides with the MQ-9 and the image from the MQ-9’s camera is lost for approximately 60 seconds.
• 00:39: The MQ-9’s camera feed is back on. At this moment the propeller can be seen again and one of the struts can be seen damaged.
• 00:42: (Video ends)