We don’t know that it was or wasn’t intentional. Harassing the drone is a problem to start with, running into it intentionally or not an extension of the core problem. Whether it was an accident or not probably isn’t much of a difference. Safer to assume it was intentional since we’d never get the truth out of the Russians.

Good news is that incidents like this will increase US military support for Ukraine.

The harassment was intentional. Making a “mistake” during an intentional act does not suddenly wipe away that root intention.

According to the article:

>Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner.

That seems more intentional than a simple fly-by anyway.