The American MQ-9 Reaper drone was found in the Black Sea near Sevastopol at a depth of 900 meters, the newspaper reports. ForPost.
According to the media, which refers to its own source close to the Russian Defense Ministry and familiar with the details of the operation, Russian Navy forces are on duty in the area where the US military intelligence apparatus fell.
It was found with the help of an underwater robot at a depth of 850-900 meters near the deep-sea branch of the South Stream gas pipeline.
The fall of an American UAV occurred on March 14 near the coast of Crimea. The Russian military spotted the device and raised fighter jets into the air to identify it. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation later stated that there was no direct contact with the device and it fell, losing control of the flight as a result of the maneuver.
The Pentagon, in turn, said that the planes of the Russian Armed Forces dropped fuel in the vicinity of the drone and called the actions of the Russian pilots “unprofessional.” Then the European command of the US Armed Forces published a record of the loss of the MQ-9 Reaper.
About the consequences of the incident – in the material “Kommersant” “For whose soul is the” reaper “”.
On March 14, an American MQ-9 Reaper drone was disabled in the sky over the Black Sea. What is known about this device – in the material “Kommersant”.
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