The Pentagon’s European Command on Thursday released the first de-classified video images of the events leading up to a Russian fighter jet colliding with an unarmed US reconnaissance drone on Tuesday, forcing the American aircraft down into the Black Sea.
The 42-second colour video clip shows two high-speed passes by a Su-27 fighter jet, each time spraying a substance that the Pentagon says is jet fuel on the American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
On a final pass, one of the Russian jets collides with the drone, the Pentagon says, and the camera feed is lost for about 60 seconds.
