{"id":20105,"date":"2023-07-25T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=20105"},"modified":"2023-07-27T06:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T06:41:14","slug":"russian-unprofessional-behavior-over-syria-23-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=20105","title":{"rendered":"Russian unprofessional behavior over Syria &#8211; 23 July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline-text\"><br \/>\n                SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 23 July, 2023\u00a0at 12:23 a.m. (EST)\u00a0Russian fighter aircraft flew dangerously close to a U.S. MQ-9 drone on a defeat-ISIS mission, harassing the MQ-9 and deploying flares from a position directly overhead, with only a few meters of separation between aircraft. One of the Russian flares struck the U.S. MQ-9, severely damaging its propeller. Fortunately, the MQ-9 crew was able to maintain flight and safely recover the aircraft to its home base.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian fighter\u2019s blatant disregard for flight safety\u00a0detracts from our mission to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS. We call upon the Russian forces in Syria to put an immediate end to this reckless, unprovoked, and unprofessional behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Attributed to Lt Gen Alex Grynkewich, Commander, 9th AF (AFCENT) and Combined Forces Air Component Commander (CFACC) for CENTCOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C.\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOn 23 July, 2023\u00a0at 12:23 a.m. (EST)\u00a0Russian fighter aircraft flew dangerously close to a U.S. MQ-9 drone on a defeat-ISIS mission, harassing the MQ-9 and deploying flares from a position directly overhead, with only a few meters of separation between aircraft. One of the Russian flares struck the U.S. MQ-9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20108,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105\/revisions\/20108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}