If your bracket isn t locked in, you are running out of time. but we have the guy to help you make the final decisions later this hour. we begin this hour with the incredibly newly declassified video showing the moments a pair of russian su-27 fighter jets forced down that u.s. mq9 reaper drone. i m told the u.s. military was able to extract the video in the last 24 hours after the first video they were able to get was less conclusive. this video you re seeing from the camera of the drone, pointed backwards from the tail. we want to break it down for you frame by frame. this still image points to the tips of propel lar of the u.s. drone. you can see at this moment they are not damaged. but when the camera came back online after a brief interruption. you can see the damage. damaged propeller from a
Welcome back half past the hour now to new, dramatic video released by the u.s. military, showing the encounter between an american drone and a russian fighter jet over the black sea nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons has the very latest. reporter: this morning, stunning, new video showing russia s mid-air clash with the american drone in the declassified video released by the u.s. military, you can see what the u.s. says is fuel being poured onto the unmanned drone by an su-27 russian fighter jet. it comes back to drop even more fuel and ends up colliding with the drone, temporarily cutting off the m camera feed. when it returns, you can see the propeller clearly damaged, forcing the military to bring down the drone into the black sea, with the u.s. saying there were efforts to wipe all its
Russian fighter jet hit an unmanned american drone, damaging the drone and causing it to go down in the black sea. russia has claimed their jets did not touch the american drone. but since the video was released russian officials have been silent. this comes as the u.s. believes russia has recovered some pieces of the drone. we re going tostart our coverage with cnn s natasha bertrand as national security spokesperson john kirby says this video shows that clearly russia has been, quote, flat out lying. reporter: this is the moment just before a russian fighter jet collided with a u.s. drone over the black sea. the thick plumes of smoke, jet fuel being vented by the russian su-27 as it passes. we don t see the moment of impact. but here s the propeller of the mq-9 reaper drone undamaged. and here it is later, clearly damaged. there had to have been some kind of an impact. i don t think a while the fuel spill on top of the aircraft, on top of the mq-9,
On March 14, a Russian SU-27 fighter brought down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea. The exact details of where and how remain a mystery even after the release of drone video showing what appears to be a dump of jet fuel onto the drone, but those details don t matter much. The incident mainly serves as an excuse for more ratcheting up of US-Russian tensions around the war in Ukraine.
Short time for now, we will be watching for that. thank you so much, senator. john kennedy, joining us us from the hill, john, but we all saw the moment the video was released, it was hinted it would be released, looks like an obvious provocation from russia taking down that drone. john: and it would appear the pilot probably did not intend to hit the drone, but close enough to get the fog of fuel over it, but took out its propeller and it went down and the su-27 headed back to its home base in crimea. we ll talk more with mark esper in the next hour here on america reports. so look forward to that. fox news alert, breaking news in the murder of the father of four shot to death in jacksonville beach last year. arrest of mario fernandez
Unmanned american drone, damaging the drone and causing it to go down in the black sea. russia has claimed their jets did not touch the american drone. but since the video was released russian officials have been silent. this comes as the u.s. believes russia has recovered some pieces of the drone. we re going tostart our coverage with cnn s natasha bertrand as national security spokesperson john kirby says this video shows that clearly russia has been, quote, flat out lying. reporter: this is the moment just before a russian fighter jet collided with a u.s. drone over the black sea. the thick plumes of smoke, jet fuel being vented by the russian su-27 as it passes. we don t see the moment of impact. but here s the propeller of the mq-9 reaper drone undamaged. and here it is later, clearly damaged. there had to have been some kind of an impact. i don t think a while the fuel spill on top of the aircraft, on top of the mq-9, would have been significant, i don t think it would have caused
neil: this video proves it. the russians did want to take down our drone and did everything possible to make it happen. they must not have known we had this ability but we do. the fallout all over the world right now which caught vladimir putin kind of lying, kind of misstating what really went over the skies of the caspian see there. to mike tobin with more on what we hear from the russians is not always accurate from the russians. mike? neil, the pentagon sources confirm that the order to aggressively harass that u.s. drone over the black sea came from russian leadership. the u.s. is not demanding an apology. that video you re talking about just released shows a russian su-27 fighter passing the u.s. reaper drone and dumping fuel on
Can see the plane dumping fuel on the reaper drone before colliding with its propeller over the black sea, russian ships are at the crash site trying to obtain debris, the u.s. does not have any ships in the area. sandra: not only are we there, we are told they rushed there, john. john kennedy says one major ally is not pulling its weight. john: what have we learned from the video, mike? the release supports what the pentagon has been saying since tuesday and undermines russia s denials. one of the first things you see is the su-27, approaching the drone from the rear. plume says it s the fuel dump.
An electrical short circuit they didn t want their fsb to have been attacked. of course belonging to the fsb on fire like this is raising questions and fears in russia and there s lot to get to tonight i want to begin natasha at the pentagon tonight, what more are you learning about the drone incident. reporter: we re learning that the u.s. believes that the russians have been able to collect some of that debris from the drone that crashed into the black sea, but we re also hearing more today about why the u.s. chose to declassify the video and release it now, we re told according to the white house national security council spokesperson john kirby that the reason is pretty simple. they believe russia flat out lied and they want to correct the narrative. this is the moment just before a russian fighter jet collided with the u.s. drone over the black sea. the thick plumes of smoke jet fuel vented by the russian su 27 as it passes, we don t see the