{"id":138653,"date":"2023-03-15T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=138653"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:48:50","slug":"black-sea-follies-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=138653","title":{"rendered":"Black Sea Follies, or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9.jpg 1014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Things That Go Bump in the Night<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Russian jet collides with US drone in international airspace over Black Sea, official says<\/h3>\n<p><em>US European Command, US Air Forces in Europe call Russian pilots&#8217; behavior &#8216;unsafe and unprofessional&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Liz Friden , Timothy H.J. Nerozzi | Fox News<br \/>\nA Russian Su-27 fighter plane collided with a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, a U.S. defense official told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The jet in question was one of two Su-27s flying in tandem when the collision occurred in international airspace over international waters. The drone&#8217;s propeller was damaged, forcing the unmanned aerial vehicle to ditch in the Black Sea, west of Crimea, the U.S. defense official told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department is summoning Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov to express its &#8220;strong objections&#8221; to the intercept, spokesman Ned Price confirmed to reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/russian-jet-collides-with-american-drone-international-airspace-black-sea\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another opportunity to excel for Joe&#8217;s Handlers on the Russian diplomacy front. Hard to play the aggrieved party after blowing up Russian national assets in the North Sea, so this should prove interesting. For the more literal-minded the term &#8216;Opportunity to Excel&#8217; was a buzzword in certain circles for an impending train wreck. No plan has yet been voiced to recover the drone.<br \/>\nBy us, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things That Go Bump in the Night Russian jet collides with US drone in international airspace &hellip; <a title=\"Black Sea Follies, or\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=138653\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Sea Follies, or<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,238,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-government-incompetence","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}