According to them, the US military does not intend to completely stop flying its drones in the Black Sea region until it completes this analysis. RIA News . The Pentagon wants to assess the costs and benefits of such missions, weighing “the potential intelligence value of this route against the risk of escalating tensions with Russia.”
Sources also say that shortly after the drone was lost, Washington sent the same MQ-9 Reaper drone to the drop zone. His task was to inspect the scene of the incident, as well as to observe the Russian military and the alleged attempts to recover the wreckage of the drone.
Now, the United States is studying the possibility of launching another drone over the Black Sea in the coming days.
Recall that on March 14, an American drone took off from an air base in Romania and, transponders turned off, headed for the border with Russia. The Russian Aerospace Forces discovered the object, Su-27 fighters were lifted into the air, they flew, made sure it was a drone, turned around and “blew” it with a draft. The drone flew out of control, lost altitude and collided with the surface of the water.
