Just to play devil's advocate. The video does not show an actual collision. Also, how do we know the video of the bent propeller was from the same drone soon after the Russian jet got close and dumped the fuel? I can't tell whether the background of the clouds and so forth is identical or close enough to the same background to know whether it is old stock video or not. How can one tell? The drone needs to be enhanced to show the actual collision; a camera from underneath probably is not going to show the collision.

Unless I am missing something, these drones seem very weak in regards to combat with a typical jet fighter. I assume that the drone is slow , so pretty much any jet fighter can catch up to it. I assume that it can't go to such a high elevation that a typical fighter can go to the same elevation. So, seems like pretty much any fighter jet could take it out; whether that be with ordinanace, dumping of fuel or an "accidental" collision. Perhaps the US needs to escort the drone with a fighter jet or 2 to protect it or at least modify the drone to show an actual collision. (Not sure whether Russia would care whether the actual collision could be captured. I suspect that they will keep doing this to drones in the area. Curious what is capture by the drone that can't be captured from satellite. Perhaps radio waves.

I am curious whether even with a bent propellor the drone could have gotten farther away from the conflict zone to be easier to recover by the US. Perhaps, they felt it was risky because it would have to go over or near populated areas. I would think Russia is likely to recover the drone, which seems like a loss.