Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder, during a briefing, declined to answer a question from the press on whether the US reconnaissance drone that fell in the Black Sea had weapons.
- I do not intend to go into details about the characteristics of this aircraft, – said Ryder.
Recall that on March 14, the commander of the US Air Force in Europe, Hecker, said that the incident with the fall of the high-altitude drone MQ-9 was caused by the allegedly “dangerous and unprofessional” maneuvers of the Su- 27 crew.
Later, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons and did not come into contact with an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Military expert, editor of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, Alexei Leonkov, in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, said that there were too many inconsistencies in the American version of what happened.
