Changes in the routes of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the US Black Sea region following the crash of the MQ-9 drone have limited the country’s ability to gather intelligence. It has been reported CNNciting a top Pentagon source.
“This (change of course. – socialbites.ca) definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence,” the source told CNN.
According to another unnamed US official, such measures by the American side are aimed at avoiding events that could lead to a direct confrontation with Russia.
As previously reported, the US changed After the Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the Black Sea, the flight routes of Global Hawk strategic unmanned aerial vehicles became clear. On March 17, one of the US strategic drones returned to airspace over the Black Sea, regularly conducting reconnaissance sorties to the Crimea region from a base in Sicily.