{"id":139074,"date":"2023-03-26T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139074"},"modified":"2023-03-24T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T00:05:00","slug":"russian-pilots-involved-with-us-drone-crash-given-bravery-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139074","title":{"rendered":"Russian pilots involved with US drone crash given bravery awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pilot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pilot-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pilot-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pilot-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pilot-500x250.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pilot-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pilot.png 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Russian government awarded bravery awards to the Russian pilots involved with the downing of a US drone. Russia&#8217;s Ministry of Defense praised the pilots for stopping the drone. Their justification? These pilots stopped the drone from violating the boundary that the Kremlin set up. However, the US and its allies saw these Russian pilots as committing an irresponsible act in international airspace. Senator Mark Kelly, who was a Navy pilot during Operation Desert Storm, indicated that the collision resulted from Russian pilot incompetence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, the Kremlin issued state awards to the fighter jet pilots responsible for downing the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea earlier the week prior. In an official statement, the Ministry of Defense commended the pilots for preventing the drone from &#8220;violating the boundaries of the temporary airspace regime established for the special military operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>National Security Council spokesman John Kirby spoke with reporters Wednesday about the matter while making fun of the Russian government for portraying the pilots as heroes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know of another military in the world, another air force in the world that would award a pilot for smashing into a drone,&#8221; he said during a White House press briefing. &#8220;If that&#8217;s bravery, I guess they have a different definition of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russia said the drone was flying with its transponders off. Kirby said U.S. officials don&#8217;t know if the pilot intentionally crashed into the aircraft &#8220;but he did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Either way, in the Navy I grew up in, you don&#8217;t want to hit anything. Hitting anything is bad for you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have no clue why they would give a bravery award to a pilot who was at worst maliciously putting himself and U.S. property at great risk and at best, just an idiot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has information related to this story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-kirby-blasts-russia-awarding-pilots-us-drone-crash-calls-one-idiot\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/senator-former-combat-pilot-says-not-just-russian-aggression-caused-midair-crash\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government awarded bravery awards to the Russian pilots involved with the downing of a &hellip; <a title=\"Russian pilots involved with US drone crash given bravery awards\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139074\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian pilots involved with US drone crash given bravery awards<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-affairs","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139074","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}