And now for the video

Su-27 pisses on US drone

The Pentagon has released a video feed from an onboard camera on the Reaper drone that crashed into the Black Sea.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-jet-united-states-drone-video-1.6780533

It shows two flybys by Russian SU-27 jets, releasing fuel. One fuel dump causes momentary disruption of the camera feed from the (unmanned) cockpit.

The second recorded pass by the SU-27 shows the plane flying extremely close to the drone

The final bit of the video show the slowly rotating rear propeller of the drone with one damaged blade. Good work Russian Tom Cruise flyboy.

The video evidence reinforces the previous Pentagon briefing on the incident and suggests that the US decided to bring down the drone into the Black Sea because of the damaged propeller, which likely precluded a successful return to base. Which base we don’t know, but it could have been the Incirlik air base in Turkey, from where the US flew drones for missions over Syria.

Will we get to see the Russian camera feed? Unlikely, I would say. Propaganda works best in an evidence-free environment.