US TV channel Fox News has recently reported that Russian aircraft intercepted elusive US MQ-1 Predator drones in the Syrian Sky three times. After the first incident of interception, Pentagon officials said that that Russians were just lucky. However, two other incidents occurred soon afterwards, although the Russian aircraft did not try to down the unmanned aerial vehicles, but simulated interception instead.
Fox News said that the incidents occurred above the ISIS-controlled territory of Syria, above the "capital" of The Islamic State - the city of Rakka, near the Turkish-Syrian border, not far from Kobani and Aleppo.
A specialized military publication confirmed in 2014 that Russian anti-aircraft troops forced a US military drone to land during the time of the Crimean crisis and referendum in March 2014.
"The Ukrainian side tried to organize aerial reconnaissance above the Crimea with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. The latter were part of the 66th military reconnaissance brigade headquartered in Bavaria, Germany, and deployed in Kirovograd, Ukraine. Yet, neither the US nor Ukraine managed to keep the Crimea and Russia's Black Sea Navy under control.
"As a result if the measures taken, two Israeli-made unmanned drones, MQ-5B Hunter, were intercepted. One of them was downed by militia forces on March 10, another one was forced to land with the help of a Russian ground-based radio technical reconnaissance system Avtobaza," Russian military officials said.
Earlier, the bureau of journalistic investigation reported that in sixty percent of cases, US drones attack and bomb buildings. According to Washington's Blog, up to 90 percent of victims of American drone attacks are civilians.
"I'm really good at killing people," US President Barack Obama said once at a meeting with defense officials.