What is known about US-Russia military air crash?

What is known about US-Russia military air crash?
A US MQ-9 drone on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, in 2018 (Massoud Hossaini/AP)

When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large US surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a US diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology.

US and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet – each blaming the other. But a Pentagon spokesman raised the possibility that the Defence Department could eventually declassify and release video it has of the collision.

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