This was clearly confirmed by the incident with an American multi-purpose strike drone that fell into the Black Sea.
Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder admitted that the MQ-9 conducted reconnaissance near the borders of Russia. Asked if the drone carried weapons, he replied: “I won’t go into the specifics of this particular aircraft, since you know that the MQ-9 is capable of carrying weapons.” Yes, a few bombs. But who really knows what, and most importantly, why could a fallen drone carry?
At the same time, no one asked the same Patrick Ryder what the US Air Force would have done in a similar situation. Wouldn’t the Americans take to the air with their fighters with the order – “destroy”? And at the same time, they definitely would not have begun to understand a foreign drone for the purposes of an air voyage. The Russian pilots, on the other hand, acted professionally and prudently, avoiding any contact, collision, or violation of the Russian border.
The very recognition of the purpose of the flight – the collection of intelligence – is a fairly good reason to demand to stop such hostile “activities” of Washington, which has recently been increasingly allowing its Ukrainian puppets to forcefully invade Russian Crimea. The landscapes of the peninsula were not photographed by the MQ-9, we understand this very well.
What happened to the American UAV, including the Pentagon hysteria, is an obvious but failed provocation. It is time for the United States to realize the danger and possible direct consequences of its “drone adventures” near Russian borders.
