New US drone routes over Black Sea 'definitely limit' intelligence gathering, says US official

New US drone routes over Black Sea 'definitely limit' intelligence gathering, says US official

By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent The US decision to fly its surveillance drones further south over the Black Sea after a Russian jet collided with a US drone earlier this month “definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence” related to the Ukraine war, a senior US military official tells CNN. Flying drones at greater distances reduces the quality of intelligence they can gather, a US military official explained, notin…

New US drone routes over Black Sea 'definitely limit' intelligence gathering, says US official

By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent The US decision to fly its surveillance drones further south over the Black Sea after a Russian jet collided with a US drone earlier this month “definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence” related to the Ukraine war, a senior US military official tells CNN. Flying drones at greater distances reduces the quality of intelligence they can gather, a US military official explained, notin…

New US drone routes over Black Sea 'definitely limit' intelligence gathering, says US official

The US decision to fly its surveillance drones further south over the Black Sea after a Russian jet collided with a US drone earlier this month "definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence" related to the Ukraine war, a senior US military official tells CNN.

CNN: New US drone routes over the Black Sea reduce “information collection capacity”

According to the TV channel, at present, the United States will continue flights in international airspace, but will pass at a distance of 64 km from the border with Ukraine.

Interferes with intelligence gathering: US changes drone flight routes over the Black Sea

Drones will fly away from the airspace of occupied Crimea

After the attack on the MQ-9 Reaper. New US drone routes over the Black Sea limit the collection of intelligence about the war against Ukraine

Launching its drones further south over the Black Sea after an attack by a Russian plane on the MQ-9 Reaper drone, the US has limited ability to gather intelligence related to the war against Ukraine. This CNN was told by an American senior official.