Russia Shoots Down US Drone MQ-5B Hunter over Crimea

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United States Air Force UAV MQ-5B Hunter

An American scout-attack drone was intercepted in the Crimean sky, the Rostec state corporation reports. “Judging by side marking, the MQ-5B drone was part of the 66th US brigade of military intelligence with the main location in Bavaria,” the report on the website of the corporation reads.

According to the report, at the beginning of March, the American brigade was relocated to the Ukrainian Kirovohrad, from where drones commit reconnaissance raids in the direction of Crimea and Russian border areas.

Earlier, they reportedly appeared in the Kherson region, in the area of the Crimean roadblock Chongar. “According to some data, the American reconnaissance brigade had 18 MQ-5B drones in its arsenal. This is the second time the American UAV is intercepted over Crimea,” the report says.

“The drone was at the height of about 4 thousand meters and was practically invisible from the earth. It was possible to break the drone’s link with its American operators with the help of the EW (electronic warfare) complex Avtobaza. As a result, the device made an emergency landing and passed into the possession of the self-defense forces almost unbroken,” the report says.

Voice of Russia, Interfax.

Al Arabiya reports Russia has intercepted US drone over #crimea #euromaidan
— bruce springnote (@BSpringnote) March 14, 2014

Interface says US drone MQ-5B type out of Germany shot down in crimea. Drone belongs to 66th intel brigade but being flown out of Kirovograd
— bruce springnote (@BSpringnote) March 14, 2014

If US flew this drone over crimea and out of Kirovograd so much for claims that US not considering military assistance to ukraine.
— bruce springnote (@BSpringnote) March 14, 2014

(BeforeItsNews.com)

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