Video released to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service shows a Russian Su-35S flying dangerously close to a U.S. MQ-9 before deploying flares from a position directly over the drone. The drone was on a defeat-ISIS mission in Syria on July 23, 2023. One of the Russian flares struck the MQ-9, damaging its propeller and prematurely ending the mission.

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