When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a U.S. diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology.
U.S. 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. A Pentagon spokesperson raised the possibility that the U.S. Defence Department could eventually declassify and release video it has of the collision.
Defence officials said the drone has not been recovered. But the Pentagon declined to
