U.S. military releases footage of Russian fighter jet forcing down American drone over Black Sea

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The U.S. military released video of the encounter between the Russian fighter jet and an American surveillance drone, as it was forced down over the Black Sea. Russia denied the collision happened. Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen joins AC360 to discuss whether the video undermines the Russian version of events.

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0:00.0	images that would have terrified us during the Cold War bringing a similar chill tonight.
0:07.0	John Berman here in Foranderson.
0:08.5	By now you might have already watched this video of a Russian fighter harassing an American
0:13.2	drone in international airspace over the Black Sea.
0:16.6	Tonight we're going to look at what it signifies in today's confrontation between Russia and
0:20.7	the West.
0:21.7	One in which Moscow is already fighting a hot war in Europe and just as during the Cold
0:26.3	War it's also actively trying to subvert pro-Western governments.
0:31.1	We have a 360 exclusive on a Russian document laying out one such plan to effectively topple
0:37.2	a country besides Ukraine and indications that the scheme has already started.
0:42.8	First though, what that video tells us in new details on the intercept itself seeing
0:47.0	as Current Liberty might just come to that?
1:13.7	Another pass, dumping fuel once again, the jet comes even closer and the video
1:18.5	pixelates when the Russian fighter collides with the US drone. When it comes
1:22.7	back online, you can see the propeller with a bent blade damaged in the impact.
1:26.8	In these side-by-side images, you can see the propeller before and after operating
1:32.0	and damaged. We know that the intercept was intentional. We know that the
1:36.4	aggressive behavior was intentional. We also know it was very unprofessional and
1:39.1	very unsafe. The actual contact of the Fixwing Russian fighter with our UAV,
1:46.3	the physical contact of those two. Not sure yet. That remains to be seen.
1:50.2	The video undercuts the Russian narrative of what happened during the encounter.
1:54.4	The Pentagon says lasted 30 to 40 minutes in total. Russia claimed there was no
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