{"id":563004,"date":"2023-03-16T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T05:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563004"},"modified":"2023-03-16T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T06:45:52","slug":"russian-fighter-plane-downs-us-drone-into-black-sea-top-5-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russian-fighter-plane-downs-us-drone-into-black-sea-top-5-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian fighter plane \u2018downs\u2019 US drone into Black Sea: Top 5 developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fuelling tensions between the United States (US) and Russia, while the two countries are already at loggerheads over Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine, a Russian fighter plane allegedly clipped the propeller of one of US\u2019 MQ-9 \u2018Reaper\u2019 intelligence and surveillance drones in a \u201cbrazen violation of international law\u201d and reportedly made it crash into the Black Sea Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to news agency Reuters, two Russian Su-27 jets carried out what the US military described as a \u201creckless intercept of the American spy drone while in international air space\u201d. It said the Russian fighter jets dumped fuel on the MQ-9 \u2014 possibly trying to blind or damage it \u2014 and flew in front of it in unsafe manoeuvres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuelling tensions between the United States (US) and Russia, while the two countries are already at loggerheads over Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine, a Russian fighter plane allegedly clipped the propeller of one of US\u2019 MQ-9 \u2018Reaper\u2019 intelligence and surveillance drones in a \u201cbrazen violation of international law\u201d and reportedly made it crash into the Black Sea Tuesday. According to news agency Reuters, two Russian Su-27 jets carried out what the US military described as a \u201creckless intercept of the American spy drone while in international air space\u201d. It said the Russian fighter jets dumped fuel on the MQ-9 \u2014 possibly [&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-563004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563004","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=563004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}