The Kremlin pledged to use a drone after the accident in foreign waters
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Russian forces have arrived at the site of the MQ-9 US surveillance drone that was shot down in the Black Sea in an attempt, officials told CNN.
The Kremlin vowed Wednesday to investigate the giant drone that crashed into foreign waters after its encounter with Russian warplanes the day before.
It is unclear whether Russia was able to recover debris from the drone when they arrived at the crash site, which is located about 70 miles southwest of Crimea, U. S. officials told the news network.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the United States had made it “impossible” for Russia to unload anything useful from the downed drone.
But he declined to verify to CNN that the Russians were there.
“All that’s left of what floats will probably be flight surfaces, that sort of thing,” Kirby told the network’s Wolf Blitzer.
“It’s probably nothing that’s genuinely intrinsically priced to them in terms of reengineering or anything like that. We are not too involved in everything they have in their hands.
He added: “This is our heritage and they have nothing to recover. “
The Pentagon said a Russian Su-27 hit the unmanned drone’s propeller, rendering it unusable.
Earlier Wednesday, the most sensible general in the U. S. armed forces was in the U. S. military. The U. S. Department of Health said the drone would most likely break up and sink in deep water, making recovery difficult.
“It probably sank to significant depths, so any recovery operation from a technical standpoint would be very difficult,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters.
The United States could not succeed in the siege before Russia, since lately it has no military ships in the Black Sea.
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A U. S. QM-9 drone. U. S. Air Force shows an aerial demonstration at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.
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