When a Russian Su-27 collided with an American MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance drone in international air
redstate.com By streiff
When a Russian Su-27 collided with an American MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance drone in international airspace over the Black Sea last month (Russian Fighter Intercepts US Drone over the Black Sea), many observers, including me, wrote it off as a hyper-aggressive Russian pilot working beyond his skill level. In the aftermath, the US response indicated that the attack on the drone would not be treated as an escalation (The Black Sea Drone Incident Doesn’t Mean Escalation Unless the Russians Want It).
Fast forward to late last week when a trove of over 100 documents, some highly classified, appeared on social media. I traced the genesis of these documents in Secret Pentagon Documents Emerge on a Minecraft Players Forum, WTF? with a focus on a series of presentations focusing on training and equipping Ukrainian troops in Germany and the UK and combat operations in Ukraine.
One of the documents I did not have access to documented multiple instances of aggressive behavior by Russian pilots when intercepting NATO aircraft, including one in which a Russian fighter launched a missile at a British RC-135 “Rivet Joint” intelligence gathering aircraft.
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