exploit for any reason the russian said is very different. they re saying this mq-9 was operating and it lost power, lost altitude and it crashed and there was no actual collision. what we are hoping is we ll get some sort of vision confirmation that will give us an idea of which side s version of events is more related to the truth here, katy we don t know a couple of other things still number one, the pentagon is declining to say whether the mg 9 was armed at the time. they say it was on a routine surveillance mission it doesn t seem either side implied what s known as the deconfliction line that s intended to keep any kind of a conflict from occurring, to keep their airspace their aircraft from going in the same airspace and having a collision like this we don t yet know if that actually occurred. we do now know that the state department summoned russia s top
about this collision we re also getting word from russia on what they say happened walk us through it. it s pretty safe to say the two sides have a different opinion of what happened today there were two russian fighter jets operating very unsafely around this drone, the u.s. drone flying in international airspace the russian jets were flying really close, flying right in front of it and even dropping just feel on top of the mq-9 at one point one of the jets actually collided. the wing of it collided with the propeller. the drone was damaged. the u.s. chose to down it in the black sea. we know according to defense officials that they were able to wipe it, wipe the software so that if anyone like the russians were able to get their hands on it, it shouldn t have any information on it that they can
supplying intelligence to be ukrainians, as well as hard wealth that gets a lot of the focus over the last year or so hardware. these mq-9, the last year or so hardware. these mq 9, reaper drones which can be armed, it is a pretty big thing, they won t say whether it was armed on this occasion but they say they were conducting a isr operation. intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance so to you and me that is fine. so that is not something the russians will be happy about it and if they can disrupt that kind of process and stop that information getting down to the koreans they will try to do that. so this is part of the cut and thrust ukrainians. but in the spickler case it is coming to the open because the catastrophic consequences. in this particular case. after the turmoil in the banking industry following the takeover of two banks by us regulators there was a rally in the stock market today, as investors and bank
this incident. a very quick one. you haven t seen reaper. is it correct that it s an m 39 reaper i m going to stick with mq 9. thanks joe. thanks so much, pat an mq9 potentially contains sensitive technology is the u.s. military make ig any effort to recover the mq-9 is it in the waters of the black sea? has russia recovered it? is there a u.s. naval asset in the region that could undertake that recovery? again, i m not going to get into the specifics of what s on this particular aircraft other than, again, it s an isr platform because of the damage, we were in position to have to
obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that s the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass sod close struck one of the propellers dropping it down into the southwest of crimea. this is the first contact of this sort since the height of the cold war. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. russian defense ministry