{"id":564442,"date":"2023-03-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-russia-on-the-hunt-for-downed-drone\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:00:00","slug":"us-russia-on-the-hunt-for-downed-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-russia-on-the-hunt-for-downed-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"#US, Russia on the hunt for downed drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30aa6700ec1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30aa6700ec1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-russia-on-the-hunt-for-downed-drone\/#US_Russia_on_the_hunt_for_downed_drone\" >US, Russia on the hunt for downed drone<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"US_Russia_on_the_hunt_for_downed_drone\"><\/span>US, Russia on the hunt for downed drone<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/Drone-file-photo-15-Mar-2023-05-09-PM-226.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Both the U.S. and Russia have signaled an interest in hunting for an advanced, $32 million drone downed over the Black Sea on Tuesday, but the search is complicated by the fact the unmanned aerial aircraft plunged into deep water\u00a0near Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. will also face serious limitations of what American crews could achieve in a search area close to Russian territory.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>U.S. Air Forces in Europe\u00a0(USAFE)\u00a0declined to speak on the specifics but said the recovery remains a \u201cpriority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take the protection and recovery of this aircraft very seriously, but the aircraft has not been recovered at this time,\u201d a\u00a0USAFE\u00a0spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CNN\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. was looking into how\u00a0it\u00a0might retrieve the MQ-9 Reaper drone but admitted it may not be recovered after it fell into \u201cvery deep water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said at a press briefing later Wednesday the drone\u00a0is in\u00a0waters\u00a0as deep as\u00a05,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny recovery operation is very difficult at that depth by anyone,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Another roadblock is the\u00a0greater than\u00a0yearlong\u00a0absence\u00a0of any U.S. ships in the Black Sea, but Milley said Washington does \u201chave a lot of allies and friends in the area that will work through recovery operations.\u201d\u00a0U.S. forces are stationed at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, which borders the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russia is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing more confident in pulling the Reaper from the depths.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service, said Moscow has the ability to recover the drone,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-russia-war-drone-pentagon-9f4b3e8fdd719c0fa91a0683228b9e51\">according to the Associated Press.<\/a>\u00a0And Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia\u2019s Security Council, told Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> they planned to search for the downed aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if we can recover them or not, but we will certainly have to do that, and we will deal with it,\u201d Patrushev said, per the AP.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, said both Russia and the U.S. have the capabilities to retrieve objects that have fallen into deep water.\u00a0But any American recovery operations could raise the risk of another escalation, Biddle added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe likelihood you could end up accidentally triggering something that could escalate is a more important stake than the equipment the Russians might find,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Reaper drone was flying over the Black Sea in international airspace when it was flanked by two Russian jets, which harassed it for more than 30 minutes.\u00a0One Russian jet dumped fuel on it and one Russian jet damaged the propellor of the drone, forcing it down on Tuesday morning local time, according to U.S. European Command.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Russia maintains the drone maneuvered sharply and crashed on its own and said the unmanned aircraft acted provocatively by approaching Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Russia will have an easier time searching for the aircraft because it appears to have fallen into the waters off the west coast of Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.\u00a0Russia maintains naval bases and airfields on the Crimean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, a NATO ally considered the friendliest to Moscow, controls the only access point from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea. Under a protocol of the Montreux Convention, Turkish officials can limit naval ships from entering \u2014 a power it has exercised after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A successful Russian recovery could pose serious intelligence concerns for Washington, but U.S. officials said they took steps to minimize sensitive intelligence collection from Russia should they find the drone first and added it would likely have limited value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt probably broke up, there\u2019s probably not a lot to recover, frankly, as far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence,\u201d Milley said Wednesday. \u201cWe did take mitigating measures so we are quite confident that whatever was of value is no longer of value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington has provided hundreds of small, tactical Switchblade drones to Ukraine, some of which have been recovered by Russian forces on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But the Pentagon has never supplied Kyiv with Reaper drones, which are more sophisticated, can fly further and are much larger, with a wingspan of 66 feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The advanced drones can linger over targets for 24 hours and are capable of\u00a0carrying\u00a0munitions such as laser-guided Hellfire missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon officials would not say whether the drone was armed at the time it crashed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The U.S. military has flown aircraft over the Black Sea since before the war, but the downed MQ-9 is the first time Russian warplanes have damaged a U.S. aircraft in that timeframe. It marks a prime opportunity for Moscow to swoop in and obtain confidential<s>ly kept<\/s>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, if any remains. The drone could also be an opportunity for Russia to promote propaganda of U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine or reinforce further action in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu talked with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, warning that Moscow views the flights around Crimea as provocative and will continue to respond to future provocations, according to a readout from the Russian Defense Ministry on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Kapchan, a senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations\u00a0(CFR), said the downed Reaper would \u201cprovide insights into American technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russians would like to get their hands on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biddle, from Columbia University and CFR, said that although U.S. technology is more advanced, many countries operate similar drones.<\/p>\n<p>The value of the Reaper\u2019s intelligence for Russia is limited compared to the risk of an escalation, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole episode is about dangerous behavior that created an incident of escalating a war,\u201d Biddle said. \u201cI don\u2019t know that the stakes in keeping the Russians from getting parts of a drone are sufficient to warrant risking the war by operating naval forces cheek-to-jowl with the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. 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