Amateur radio hobbyists appear to have obtained audio recordings of the Russian military trying to retrieve a US spy drone.
They were monitoring publicly accessible airwaves after the MQ-9 Reaper drone was downed following an encouter with two Russian warplanes last Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
The radio intercept started about eight hours after the collision in the Black Sea – in what was the first recorded physical clash between Russia and the US since the Ukraine invasion began.
The clips reveal conversations between multiple Russian ships and aircraft over a four-hour period, discussing attempts to recover the drone’s engine casing, nose, wing and gas tank.
‘At this moment, we have brought up three parts of the frame,’ one unit code-named Apelsin (Orange) was heard saying. ‘Now I am proceeding toward the helicopter to search for more.’
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