Russia might have acquired some essential intelligence after restoring the wreckage of a United States drone downed by aRussian jet from the depths of theBlackSea, according to a brand-new report.
The damage of
the hi-techAmerican MQ-9Reaper on14March in global airspace flying off annexedCrimea triggered a significant diplomatic event last month.
NowMoscow declares to have actually recuperated the drone’s‘onboard electronic equipment’ and‘obtained invaluable information about the characteristics of a number of critical MQ-9 Reaper radio-electronic components’
The wreckage was approximated to have actually sunk to depths of as much as 2,950 feet prior to it was recuperated by aRussian deep-sea salvage group.
A United States reaper drone was downed by aRussian Su -47 in theBlackSea last month(Picture:Shutterstock)
The drone sank into the depths off the coast ofCrimea(Picture:
East2West)
Included in the salvage was an AN/AAS-52 multispectral optronic turret system, an AN/APY -8 surface area reconnaissance radar system, aLink-16 information exchange system and protected telemetry and satellite interaction stations, states a report bySvobodnayaPressa
The drone particles was supposedly analyzed by professionalRussian labs consisting of at theCentralResearchInstitute of theAirborneForces of theRussianMinistry ofDefence
Russia thinks it can establish electronic warfare jamming innovation to prevent the MQ-9Reaper reconnaissance drones as it passes information to satellites, states the report.
It implicates the United States of passing intelligence from the drone to theUkrainian militaries.
Russian marine vessels were understood to have actually installed an operation in theBlack Sea to recuperate the downed drone.
Russia last month honoured 2Su- 27 pilots it stated were associated with the downing of theReaper
The setSergey Popov andVasilyVavilov, both flying force majors, were handed state awards byVladimirPutin’s defence ministerSergeiShoigu who had actually revealed not long after the event that the guys would be honoured.
PilotSergeyPopov( L) was granted state honours byRussian defence ministerSergiShoigu( R) for downing the drone
Russia declares it can produce jamming innovation to prevent reaper drones in future from the restored product(Picture:Shutterstock)
The unarmed United States MQ-9Reaper had its tail prop struck by theRussian warplane which had actually previously released fuel on the unmanned leaflet.
The West saw the interception as unlawful, whileRussia represented the pilots as heroes.
America branded the event– a‘brazen violation of international law’, blaming theRussians for‘an unsafe and unprofessional intercept’
The pilots were grantedOrders of Courage.
PilotMajorVasilyVavilov stated:’We were on battle air defence task when we got an order to remove.
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‘Two teams flew to obstruct a drone which was flying with the function of breaking the[Russian] state border.
‘We flew close to the drone, identified it, and then performed manoeuvres to force it not to carry out its duty.’
Russia stated the event remained in a location in which it had actually closed the air area.
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)Ambassador to the United States AnatolyAntonov stated the drone‘was flying with its transponders off, and it entered the zone of the special military operation’
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TheRussian defence ministry stated:‘As a result of sharp manoeuvring, the MQ-9 drone went into an unguided flight with loss of altitude and collided with the water surface.’
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