The Department of Defense has released footage of the MQ-9 “Reaper” drone’s demise at the hands of a Russian pilot flying a Su-27 “Flanker.”
Lara Seligman of Politico reports:
BREAKING: DoD releases footage of a Russian Su-27 colliding into a U.S. MQ-9 over the Black Sea Tuesday.
You can see the Russian aircraft dump fuel on the MQ-9, then bump into it. The video is lost; a few seconds later the feed returns and you can see the propeller is damaged. pic.twitter.com/jzF7NZ1em5
— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) March 16, 2023
The Warzone has an excellent write-up about the collision here.