Lieutenant General Alex Grynkewich added that one of the crew members who operated the ‘drone’ remotely kept the device in the air and managed to take it back to base.
A Russian fighter jet fired rockets at a US drone in Syria and damaged the unmanned aircraft, the US military said, in the fourth incident of its kind in recent weeks.
“One of the Russian rockets hit the US MQ-9, severely damaging the propeller,” the commander of the 9th Air Force in the Middle East, Lieutenant General Alex Grynkewich, said in a statement.
“We call on Russian forces in Syria to put an immediate end to this reckless, unprovoked and unprofessional behavior,” he said, quoted by the US agency AP.
Grynkewich added that one of the crew members operating the drone remotely kept the drone in the air and managed to fly it back to base.
The incident, which took place on Sunday, is the latest in a series of “encounters” between Russian fighter jets and US planes over Syria.
In all but one case, a week ago, the US planes were unmanned MQ-9 drones.
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