{"id":30652,"date":"2023-07-25T15:12:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/07\/25\/russian-jet-damaged-us-drone-with-flares-over-syria-us-military-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:11:20","slug":"russian-jet-damaged-us-drone-with-flares-over-syria-us-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/2023\/07\/25\/russian-jet-damaged-us-drone-with-flares-over-syria-us-military-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian jet damaged US drone with flares over Syria, US military says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Editor\u2019s note: This story was updated at 5:15 p.m. EST with additional information.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Russian fighter jet flew within a few meters of a U.S. drone over Syria and fired flares at it, striking the American aircraft and damaging it, the U.S. military said Tuesday, the latest in a string of aggressive intercepts by Russia in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior Air Force commander said the move on Sunday was an attempt by the Russians to knock the MQ-9 Reaper drone out of the sky and came just a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-russia-us-aircraft-intercept-unsafe-3a88593f3e051286424b2262d18a22af\" target=\"_blank\">a Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close<\/a> to a U.S. surveillance aircraft carrying a crew in the region, jeopardizing the lives of the four Americans on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the Russian flares struck the U.S. MQ-9, severely damaging its propeller,\u201d Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, the head of U.S. Air Forces Central, said in a statement describing the latest close call. \u201cWe call upon the Russian forces in Syria to put an immediate end to this reckless, unprovoked, and unprofessional behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grynkewich said one of the crew members operating the drone remotely kept it in the air and flew it back to its home base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sunday incident is the latest in a series of encounters between Russian fighter jets and U.S. aircraft flying over Syria. U.S. leaders have noted the uptick and so far have discounted any connection to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia\u2019s ongoing war in Ukraine<\/a>, where the U.S. and Western allies are actively supporting Kyiv\u2019s fight against Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he\u2019s uncertain what triggered the increase. \u201cWe\u2019ve got analysts trying to figure that out. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s connected to Ukraine or not. 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Control of the oil-rich province is split between Syrian government forces and the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, with a presence of both Iranian militias and U.S. troops. It was also the site of a confrontation between U.S. forces and Russian mercenaries from the Wagner private military company in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported that residents protested in the town of al-Mayadeen, in Deir Ez-Zor province, \u201cin rejection of the American occupation of Syrian lands,\u201d calling for the withdrawal of American and allied SDF forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all of the Russian air intercepts except the one instance a week ago, the U.S. aircraft were MQ-9 drones without crew members. On that Sunday, however, the Russian Su-35 jet few close to a U.S. MC-12 surveillance aircraft with a crew, forcing it to go through the turbulent wake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. officials at the time called it a significant escalation in the ongoing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-russia-syria-military-fighter-jets-449a4c6fc9ab90981914c77e2d290f7f\" target=\"_blank\">string of encounters<\/a>&nbsp;between U.S. and Russian aircraft that could have resulted in an accident or loss of life. They said the Russian move hampered the crew members\u2019 ability to safely operate their plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent weeks, U.S. officials said, Russian fighter jets have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-russian-jets-us-drone-bccdd38021f1c151f73f601225634317\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly harassed U.S. MQ-9 drones<\/a>, which are conducting anti-Islamic State group missions, largely in western Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On multiple occasions in the past three weeks, the officials said, Russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to the U.S. Reapers, setting off flares and forcing the drones to take evasive maneuvers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. and Russian military officers communicate frequently over a deconfliction phone line during the encounters, protesting the other side\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are about 900 U.S. forces in Syria, and others move in and out to conduct&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-syria-islamic-state-drone-strike-3b7aa6e96273cf2360fce1015e2b1a86\" target=\"_blank\">missions targeting Islamic State group militants<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Abby Sewell in Irbil, Iraq, contributed to this report from Iraq.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Air Force commander said the move on Sunday was an attempt by the Russians to knock the MQ-9 Reaper drone out of the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":108714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":21,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,29,32,57,21,111],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6784],"class_list":["post-30652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battlefield-tech","category-home","category-newsletters","category-uas","category-unmanned","category-unmanned-systems"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"DE344W6XRBALXFRBNFD2ZOJUFQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2023\/07\/25\/russian-jet-damaged-us-drone-with-flares-over-syria-us-military-says\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russian jet damaged US drone with flares over Syria, US military says - C4ISRNet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A senior Air Force commander said the move on Sunday was an attempt by the Russians to knock the MQ-9 Reaper drone out of the sky.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russian jet damaged US drone with flares over Syria, US military says\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A senior Air Force commander said the move on Sunday was an attempt by the Russians to knock the MQ-9 Reaper drone out of the sky.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/2023\/07\/25\/russian-jet-damaged-us-drone-with-flares-over-syria-us-military-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"C4ISRNet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-25T15:12:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T15:11:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"LOLITA C. 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