American officials believe that Russia has already sent ships to the area where the drone was downed. The US says it ditched the surveillance drone in the Black Sea after a Russian Su-27 fighter jet poured fuel on it and then struck its propeller.
US drone crash an 'incredibly serious incident'At a Pentagon news conference, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared relaxed about the possibility of the $32m drone being found.
He said:"We will work through recovery operations. That's US property. But it probably broke up. There's probably not a lot to recover, frankly. "As far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence, etc ... we would take - and we did take - mitigating measures. So we're quite confident that whatever was of value is no longer of value."National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the US would take"steps to protect the information" and to"minimise any effort by anybody else to exploit that drone for useful content".
Although officials would not disclose how they would protect the Reaper, the US military has acknowledged in the past that they can remotely remove sensitive information from the drone and make their systems inoperable.
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