See moment Russian fighter jet confronts US drone

The US military's European Command has released footage of the encounter between a US surveillance drone and Russian fighter jets over the Black Sea. The newly declassified video depicts critical moments of the mid-air encounter, which the Pentagon said lasted 30-40 minutes. #CNN #News

[quentinmanson]

My prayers goes out to the drones family

[Perykvaal]

The Russian plane apparently hit the prop so hard it knocked the paint stripes off, too. Now *that* is talent.

[fartzinacan]

So much for the Russian version when they said the drone made sharp moves that caused it's own downing.

[iamwilsoncardoso]

That pilot is on another level. Respect👌

[myalterego]

Hahahaha they unintentionally followed the drone for half an hour, unintentionally dumped the fuel on it, unintentionally crashed into it and now they will unintentionally go to find it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They wanted to knock it down in as close to one piece as possible so they could go get it and reverse engineer as much as possible.

[samlachance]

Very pleased to see them releasing this footage. 👍👍👍

[danielola]

RIP FOR DRON AND CONDOLENCES FOR ALL DRON FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

[jackrademaker]

This is officially cold war level tension and behavior

[e.p.s.]

Well it's not like anybody believed Russia's version that it just happened to fall down as they were passing by

[TomTom-sohc]

Imagine the Russians flying their drones off the coast of America.
America would be outraged

[oksyar]

Why was US Drone thousands of miles away from home and so close to Russia???

[kaispirit]

Russian jet: " that's for taking down my Chinese friend surveillance balloon!"

[MostlyRight]

Too bad drone pilot didn't release some flares when Ivan dropped the fuel. That would have made an awesome video.

[nimbuskhannk]

Everybody is getting it wrong: This was just a special spraying operation.

[loubrand]

Momma always said "don't be poking the sleeping bear"

[funkycowie]

I think they were deliberately trying to ruin it with jet fuel then accidentally made contact through over confidence or lack of skill... or both.

[one-metallica]

Russia took far better actions to bring down a drone, than the US did to bring down a balloon.

[cornebod]

The USA spends millions to take out a balloon, Russia just takes a piss on a multi million dollar drone and bye-bye drone🤣🤣🤣

[darkhumorfunnyasf]

Impossible for it to be an accident with all that air space 😂 that’s like two space ships colliding in space