{"id":562770,"date":"2023-03-15T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=562770"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:32:56","slug":"us-military-drone-crashes-into-black-sea-after-russian-intercept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-military-drone-crashes-into-black-sea-after-russian-intercept\/","title":{"rendered":"US military drone crashes into Black Sea after Russian intercept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the propeller of the drone, making it inoperable, while Russia&#8217;s defense ministry blamed \u201csharp maneuvering\u201d of the unmanned drone for the crash and said that its jets did not make contact.<\/p>\n<p>Although no lives were lost, it was a reminder of the risk of direct confrontation between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, which Moscow invaded over a year ago and which Western allies have supported with intelligence and weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine over a year ago. The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the propeller of the drone, making it inoperable, while Russia&#8217;s defense ministry blamed \u201csharp maneuvering\u201d of the unmanned drone for the crash and said that its jets did not make contact. Although no lives were lost, it was a reminder of the risk of direct confrontation between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}