US is ‘very comfortable’ Russia can’t ‘exploit’ drone in collision if recovered

The Biden administration We are confident that, if Russia If the U.S. drone is recovered after it was hit by a Russian fighter plane, there won’t be any intelligence opportunities.

Two Russian Su-27 aircraft dropped fuel on and in front a building early Tuesday morning. U.S. Air Force MQ-9 unmanned aircraft flew many times before one of them crashed into its propeller above the Black Sea, 75 miles southwest of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. The United States was forced. “essentially crash it into” According to Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder.

RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT COLLIDES OVER THE BLACK SEA WITH UNMANNED US DRONE

The U.S. “looking to see what we can do to maybe recover it,” Coordinating officer for National Security Council John Kirby Wednesday morning, Good Morning America. “That will be challenging in the Black Sea, and it’s very, very deep water, but it’s our property.”

In an interview on CNN, he said that they were “still assessing whether there can be any kind of recovery effort mounted. There may not be.”

He explained this in the Good Morning America Interview: They aren’t worried that Russia could exploit the MQ-9 technology. “We’re very comfortable that should anything be taken by the Russians, their ability to exploit useful intelligence will be highly minimized,” He stated. CNN was also informed by Kirby. “We took steps to protect information and to protect, to minimize any effort by anybody else to exploit that drone for useful content.”

While it’s not common for Russian jets intercepting U.S. planes, the collision is unprecedented. A U.S. drone being shot down cost $32 million, which is quite significant.

Officials from the United States described the behavior of the Russian pilots in the following words: “reckless” A display of “incompetence.”

State Department Ned Price, a spokesperson for the company, called it “a brazen violation of international law,” He said that they could not, but he was confident. “characterize” Russia’s motivations, adding, “In a sense, however, the motivations matter much less than what actually transpired, and that’s what we’re speaking to today.”

The U.S. summoned Anatoly Antonov from Russia following the crash. “and the message was, don’t do this again,” Kirby clarified, but Antonov publically refuted the allegation. Similarly, U.S. The U.S. Embassy to Russia Lynne Tracy also conveyed the same message. “strong message” Price spoke to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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“I was invited to the State Department, where I categorically rejected all the insinuations of the U.S. side,” The Russian ambassador elaborated. “I explained the position of the Russian Federation. I stressed that the American UAV that was moving deliberately and provocatively towards the Russian territory with its transponders turned off violated the boundaries of the temporary airspace regime established for the special military operation, which was communicated to all concerned users of international airspace in accordance with international norms.”

Kirby claimed that the U.S. “obviously refute the Russian denial.”