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There was another of those moments when the world held its breath this week when news broke on March 14 of an incident between a US drone and two Russian jets. The unmanned US Reaper MQ-9 drone, reportedly on routine surveillance duties in international airspace, had to be brought down…

Pentagon released footage on Thursday of Russian jet making close passes of drone and spraying fuel before collision

The Pentagon has released a video showing Russia's intercept of a United States military surveillance drone downed over the Black Sea.

In Washington, the war in Ukraine can day-in, day-out feel like a bureaucratic exercise. A question of overseeing huge resources, votes in Congress and overworked diplomats on another flight out of Dulles. More like a war game, for American players, than an actual war. But on Tuesday that spell briefly…

The 42-second video comes two days after the Pentagon accused a Russian aircraft of colliding with an uncrewed MQ-9 Reaper drone. The Kremlin has denied that it intentionally downed the vehicle.

The footage appears to show damage to the drone's propeller.

The White House says it will be ‘impossible’ for Moscow to obtain any useful material from the downed craft

Lloyd Austin says incident would not deter US from flying where nternational laws allowed

Pentagon says video has been edited for length but shows sequence of events