Russian jet collides with US drone over Black Sea

A Russian combatant pitchy has collided with a US drone implicit the Black Sea, forcing the US Air Force to bring down its unmanned aircraft, the American subject says.

It says the drone was conducting a regular cognition successful planetary airspace erstwhile 2 Russian jets tried to intercept it.

It says the "unsafe and unprofessional enactment by the Russians" astir caused 1 of the combatant jets and the drone to crash.

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