Lt. General Ben Hodges (Ret.) weighs in on newly released footage from the US reaper drone taken down by a Russian fighter jet. #CNN #News
Military expert weighs in on footage of US drone takedown
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Thoughts and prayers for the drone and the drones family
RIP Drone. It was a good drone and will be sadly missed. My condolences to the Reaper family.
Are you telling me that the Drone had a camera from that angle to take the passing a SU27 film?!where did this film come from? Who took this film?
Drone: “ahhh were getting pretty close to the russian war zone area, permission to turn around?”
Operator: “nah were gonna sacrifice you to make russia look bad”
The family you refer to, is it the CNN family?
Russia’s intention to knock that drone out and seize the state of the art SIGINT pod it was carrying.
@dubbleplusgood – Now it’s Russia. The referendum decided. 90something percent of Crimeans decided.
What a waste of Vodka.
@JMadison Yet here they are trying to struggle to buy advanced microchips and the machines that make them. Makes sense.
They compromised SIGINT pod it was
Sam I am.
Please again tell me how dumping fuel on an asset isn’t an attack the same way firing a missile at a drone would be?
@Sleepy Joe Russian bot
@Ian Louden that’s so that you think “oh no Rus is boogie man” and “aggressive” and “environmentally unsafe” like real adults would give a flying f… it’s called social engineering homie… that’s why books is important, I been reading and writing since 3 yo it help discern facts from profit and ag3ndasz but not sure you’d be able to capture that idea, since if it’s isn t on screen or from your gov then it must be fake 😂😂
@paul forsyth it’s a war alright. I don’t think trying to play with words will get us anywhere. The USA is also a participant in this war, so there is no point in crying over it talking about how many meters away from the international border it was. As for Crimea, it’s under Russian control for 8 years. Calling it technically Ukrainian is again just playing with words.
By playing with words, I mean acting like toddlers building a world of rules around which words were in the sentence of the rule book of kindergarten. While having runaway to play outside.
The core argument itself is absurd. Everyone wants this war. It feels like little by little, the hesitation of starting a world War is eroding away.
@Figment You are so wrong my friend. Get aducated about NOTAMs and routine closures of the international airspace for military exercises
Russia: we didn’t do it!
US: Here’s the video.
Russia: you made us do it!
@11x Fuel at high speed will. Clearly you don’t comprehend basic physics.
Russia: we didn’t do it!
Us: Here’s some state of the art cgi we edited that shows you doing it.
Russia: you should make call of duty 8!
Most likely an order to attempt to down a US drone with a minimum of damage so it can be retrieved relatively o.k. for intelligence.
Most of the important stuff is software, which they’re not getting. And it won’t be intact when it impacts the sea and the hardware will be fried in salt water pretty quickly.
@Intenseowl125 exactly. The hardware is old by US military standards. The software can be wiped out autonomously or remotely, which it was.
US should have a self-destruct button for any and all weapons, drones, etc. If control of one or other is lost and the US forces cannot retrieve it quickly it should be pushed.
The propaganda value for Russia outweighs everything else. 🤔
The MQ-9 Reaper drone is *one of the most* advanced drones, not undisputedly the most advanced drone, I think.
Reverse engineering is easier said than done. So long as Russia’s economy is not wrecked, it can buy drone tech from the markets.
These drones are up there in the black sea doing loops almost every day. You can check in out on flight radar when they put their transponders on. Russia regularly buzzes them to force them down (you can see how low it is, they usually fly at 50 000 feet) and dumps fuel on them to interfere with sensors and cameras. One time an unskilled pilot got too close and clipped it by accident. It’s not an order.
Imagine 1,000lbs of water, moving at 150mph, hitting the wall of your house. Do you think you’d have a wall left? Nope. This is what the pilot was attempting to do – to use the force of the fuel being dumped to destabilize, disable, and splash the drone. This was an intentional downing of a US aircraft in international airspace. The collision was accidental – pilot incompetence.
That’s some amazing flying skills, the pilot was toying with a US high tech drone in the mid 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
It wasn’t incompetence, it was brilliance. It is well known that Russian pilots are one of the best. Brilliant MO leaving US-MoD averagely/less ‘barking’ on the subject.
It’s interesting to read that you compare a mist of fuel sprayed from a jet to a wall of water. Physics has always been difficult for many people.
Those are some good cameras, much better than the ones they use to film UFO’s
@B M My point was that the camera was better than a fighter not the resolution was brought down intentionally. Fighter video has never been great. You don’t need video.
@Matt South They probably do zoom in a Brazilian.
Over some beaches..
And the 80 on the pentagon 😉
@Bob B. – Most of the videos that you will see from a fighter are thermal, night vision, or infrared. That is what they use for combat. Reconnaissance aircraft will have video more to your liking but if shown to the public like this one they probably will pixelate it (downgrade resolution) as to not give up capabilities to adversaries.
Russian pilot’s version of account: I was just flying along minding my own business and drinking my breakfast Vodka smoothie when the drone put itself on reverse and struck my aircraft.
@Davyd Sol everyone has the right to fly over international waters
@Wilhelm Eley the u.s. is so intrusive and invasive.
@Wilhelm Eleyinternational rights is just an excuse to gather and collect information
Can we take a moment to think about how well made these drones and the cameras are? Think about how fast the cameras and operating systems are to catch all of that so clearly.
@Célio Pereira – A bank invests 30K in cameras and the military invests 300K+ for a drone. The life and purpose of the drone depends on the optics a bank on making money not in security/surveillance equipment.
Ohh, and you can we man foo fighter on the video.. not even lying..
I also love the part where the video stops short of any impact 😂
@hardikilus dopadikus jet scrambling systems probably
The drone pilot lost a couple doritos from his hand after watching this. 🧡 Rip
The drone cost the american tax payer a couple of doritos..
Putin had his family vist his palace just in case .
That poor drone. *R.I.P.* _(Rest In Pieces)_
@Lars Ronæs it has 100s of brothers .and next time it will be protected , Global Hawk WILL BE SENT OUT ,
@Lars Ronæs 😄
Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content awareness
I don’t know, the drone must have fallen out a window…
Putin’s window..
Who knows, soon Russian warships might be falling out windows? Or to the bottom of the sea? The Russians themselves advertised their ships would be on that spot (note: The salvage ship “Komuna” is a 100 years old ship that should belong in a museum, still it _IS_ a Russian military vessel and thus a legitimate military target). I’m just thinking, _hmm, the crash site is within range of Ukrainian _*_drone boats._*_ Could it be that…?_
Two SU 29s, made 19 passes over a 35 minute period. Fuel dumps occurred on each planes final pass before heading back to base. Waiting on intercepted pilots communications.
Don’t hold your breath.
There is no SU-29, there is a SU-27.
honestly man I think the drone and the MIG fighter jet were trying to race and its by accident , I don’t think the Russian jet was trying to damage the drone , I think the drone and the Mig lost control , looks like typical road rage , doesn’t look like the mig wanted to damage the drone , but I’m not an expert , I don’t think it was an attempt to down the drone , the drone and the mig were probably trying to challenge each other and both lost control at some point in the black sea and the migs left the area , like a street race
I’m amazed that the plane only hit one of the propeller blades!!
The plane didn’t touch the drone.
The plane ate the drone
@James green self bending props?
@Galen S the fuel flow damaged one blade. It’s impossible for a plane to have done that since it would have damaged the entire propeller considering its RPMs
Not only they created emotional trauma to the drone 😂
😂😂😂 exactly, now drone is feeling vulnerable
Those are some serious pilot skills! And some great technology to grab that angle!
honestly man I think the drone and the MIG fighter jet were trying to race and its by accident , I don’t think the Russian jet was trying to damage the drone , I think the drone and the Mig lost control , looks like typical road rage , doesn’t look like the mig wanted to damage the drone , but I’m not an expert , I don’t think it was an attempt to down the drone , the drone and the mig were probably trying to challenge each other and both lost control at some point in the black sea and the migs left the area , like a street race
@Sina Bagheri Sarvestani This is embarrassing to read
Always good to have a dash cam
Glad the “expert” cleared that all up for us
It would be a darn shame if a line from a movie were spoken some time in the near future, “Andrei, you have lost another submarine?” A darn shame indeed.