{"id":563003,"date":"2023-03-16T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T05:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563003"},"modified":"2023-03-16T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T06:45:07","slug":"russian-fighter-jet-hits-american-drone-over-black-sea-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russian-fighter-jet-hits-american-drone-over-black-sea-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian fighter jet hits American drone over Black Sea: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a US surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday in a \u201cbrazen violation of international law,\u201d causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle, the US said.<\/p>\n<p>But Russia insisted its warplanes didn\u2019t hit the MQ-9 Reaper drone. Instead, it said the drone manoeuvred sharply and crashed into the water following an encounter with Russian fighter jets that had been scrambled to intercept it near Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which added to Russia-US tensions over Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine, appeared to be the first time since the height of the Cold War that a US aircraft was brought down after an encounter with a Russian warplane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a US surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday in a \u201cbrazen violation of international law,\u201d causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle, the US said. But Russia insisted its warplanes didn\u2019t hit the MQ-9 Reaper drone. Instead, it said the drone manoeuvred sharply and crashed into the water following an encounter with Russian fighter jets that had been scrambled to intercept it near Crimea. The incident, which added to Russia-US tensions over Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine, appeared to be the first time since the height of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563003","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}