Originally Posted by
kilo_foxtrot
RIP Forte11
It all seems very sketchy - I wonder if this was a cack-handed attempt by the Russians to bring it down relatively intact in order to retrieve it? Or maybe they got fed up with it and had orders to bring it down without actually shooting it down (which could be interpreted as an overtly hostile act?).
Sounds highly plausible.
It will be interesting to see whether the US does anything about it.