Aerial Clash

This handout image taken from video released by US European Command (USEUCOM) on March 16 shows onboard footage from a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 drone as it is approached the first time by a Russian SU-27 aircraft jettisoning fuel, over The Black Sea on March 14. Moscow said it would try to retrieve the wreckage of a US military drone that crashed over the Black Sea in a confrontation Washington blamed on two Russian fighter jets. Russia also warned that it would react ‘proportionately’ to any future US ‘provocations’ as tensions simmered and Moscow denied its Su-27 military aircraft had clipped the propeller of the unmanned Reaper drone.