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US and Russian military at odds over who acted as the aggressor
U.S. and Russian officials are each accusing the other side of causing a dangerous encounter between a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone and a Russian military aircraft over Syria on Sunday.
Russian Rear Adm. Oleg Gurinov told the Russian state-run TASS news agency that a U.S. drone nearly caused a mid-air collision with Russian warplanes operating near Al-Bab, in the northern Syrian region of Aleppo. He claimed the U.S. drone eventually turned its targeting system on the Russian fighter jet, automatically triggering the Russian warplaneâs defensive systems.
âRussian pilots once again demonstrated high professionalism and took timely measures to prevent collisions with the coalitionâs unmanned aerial vehicles,â Rear Adm. Gurinov claimed…
