A Russian fighter jet fired flares and struck another U.S. drone over Syrian airspace on Wednesday, the White House said, in a continued string of harassing maneuvers that have ratcheted up tensions between the global powers.
It's the sixth reported incident this month, and the second in the past 24 hours, in which the United States has said Russian warplanes have flown dangerously close to American manned and unmanned aircraft, putting crews and the planes at risk and raising questions as to what the U.S. may need to do in response.
A senior Russian military leader blamed the U.S. for the latest incident, and charged that aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition in Syria violated deconfliction protocols with Russia 10 times in the past 24 hours. He also said the U.S. drone involved in the Tuesday encounter was not cleared through deconfliction procedures and was "entirely provocative." He said Russian pilots "showed a high degree of professionalism and took timely steps to avoid a collision with the drone."
Toward that end, the U.S. has seen more co-operation, collaboration, planning and intelligence sharing, largely between mid-level Russian and Iranian Quds force leaders in Syria, said the senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing military missions. "It doesn't seem like the Russians really want a direct, hot confrontation, but things that are sort of below that threshold, like messing with our drones, is right up their alley," Hardie said.
on July 16, a Russian Su-35 fighter jet forced an American twin-engine surveillance plane routinely used by special operations forces to fly through the Su-35's wake turbulence, which "reduced the crew's ability to safely operate the aircraft and put the four crewmembers' lives at risk." The intercept of the manned MC-12 represented "a new level of unsafe and unprofessional actions by Russian aircraft operating in Syria.
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