Why were they dumping fuel on the drone? Were the Russians "pissing" on the US? Lol, I've never heard of aircraft dumping fuel on an enemy aircraft. This feels like it's loaded with comms.
The drone engine ingesting fuel would possibly malfunction (too rich a combustion mixture) and fail. Easy kill. A wingtip into the propeller implies to me a high degree of piloting skill. I don't believe for a second that this was some spontaneous rogue action. It was undoubtedly per new directives. An MQ-9 is not a cheap asset and it tweaks the U.S. nose in a way that the U.S. can only respond to by blustering and whining. The implied message is: "We can do this to your expensive drones and what are you going to do about it? Get into a shooting war over a fucking robot?"
Why were they dumping fuel on the drone? Were the Russians "pissing" on the US? Lol, I've never heard of aircraft dumping fuel on an enemy aircraft. This feels like it's loaded with comms.
The drone engine ingesting fuel would possibly malfunction (too rich a combustion mixture) and fail. Easy kill. A wingtip into the propeller implies to me a high degree of piloting skill. I don't believe for a second that this was some spontaneous rogue action. It was undoubtedly per new directives. An MQ-9 is not a cheap asset and it tweaks the U.S. nose in a way that the U.S. can only respond to by blustering and whining. The implied message is: "We can do this to your expensive drones and what are you going to do about it? Get into a shooting war over a fucking robot?"
Thank you for the explanation. Makes sense 👍