The story of the fall of the US MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle in the Black Sea did not affect the desire of the American leadership to continue flying drones near Russian borders. Now a second similar MQ-9 Reaper drone is heading into the UAV fall zone., reports the American television channel CNN.
According to the American media, The Pentagon expects to study all possible risks, including financial, from flying drones near Russian borders. The American side wants to calculate all the costs and compare them with the benefits, and then make a decision regarding further similar flights.
The tasks of drones appearing over the Black Sea, and this is not even hidden in America, includes conducting intelligence activities and monitoring the Russian military. That drone, which is already directed to the place where the previous drone crashed into the sea, will carry out the tasks of monitoring the attempts of the Russian military to get UAV fragments from the bottom.
Earlier it was reported, that several Russian warships arrived at the crash site of the MQ-9 Reaper in the Black Sea. Later, the US Department of Defense announced the intensification of the actions of the Russian military to extract UAV fragments from the sea..
However, Russia did not hide, what is going to get the drone. This was discussed at a very high level - and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, and Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin immediately recognized the existence of technical capabilities and the expediency of extracting drone fragments from the depths of the sea. Author:Ilya Polonsky
