US drone General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper near the Libyan capital of Tripoli was hit by mistake. This writes the Associated Press referring to the statement by the command of the Libyan National Army.
According to a published statement by one of the senior representatives of the headquarters of the Libyan National Army (LNA Haftara), LNA units confused American drone with Turkish drone, used by opponents, settled in Tripoli and shot him down. After the inspection, the ownership of the downed drone was established, command of the LNA went to the US military, apologized for the incident and agreed to coordinate further actions.
We mistook an American drone for a Turkish one, used by Tripoli militias. The army command apologized to the US military and agreed to coordinate actions, to avoid similar incidents in the future.
– he said.
earlier it was reported, that the African command of the US Armed Forces lost the American reconnaissance vehicle MQ-9 Reaper in the area of the capital of Libya, the city of Tripoli 21 November, a day earlier, an Italian drone MQ-9A Predator-B was lost there. It was argued, that both drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems “Carapace-S1E”, in service with the army of Khalifa Haftar. The complex was previously delivered to Libya from the UAE, who bought them in Russia.
In the civil war, bound for Libya, UAE backs Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army, supplying her with weapons, including Russian air defense systems “Carapace-S1E”. Earlier it was reported about the delivery to Libya, at least, two Russian anti-aircraft systems.
