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title: "Reaper Drone Crash & the USS Fitzgerald Crash"
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**My thought line is based on information available to me and what I’m comfortable claiming as my own**.

 **Other persons are putting forth their own opinions. I see claims of the drone being shot down but kept quiet As well as the possibility of electronic warfare. They could be correct! I won’t disparage them.**

  **Until additional information comes to light, `I'm sticking with the idea of incompetence, hubris, error, miscalculation`– call it what you wish.` Perhaps the drone operators were playing a form of chicken with the fighter jet pilots `that went wrong. We know the operators of the drone crashed it themselves? I doubt that was the outcome they had hoped for. But it was the outcome they got!**

**At this point in time I’m doubtful that there was any contact between the fighter jet and the drone.**

**In 2017 the USS Fitzgerald crashed into a massive container ship. I wrote a series of reports on this crash. Initially the US media and other military PR commenters tried to claim the Fitzgerald had been rammed by this lumbering behemoth of a cargo ship- Laughable. But that didn’t stop spinners from spinning.**

**You can find the original report via the [wayback machine here](https://web.archive.org/web/20170922054845/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2017/06/uss-fitzgeraldacx-crystal-collision.html).**

**Once all the dust settled and the media coverage died down it became very apparent and for the most part acknowledged that the crew of the [USS Fitzgerald caused the accident and was negligent.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/asia/destroyer-fitzgerald-collision.html)**

**Screen shot below link to another report I’d done on this ‘accident’**

<https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-far-more-maneuverable-fitzgerald.html>

![](https://i0.wp.com/pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image-36.png?resize=580%2C451&ssl=1)**To make a long story short- the crew of the USS Fitzgerald was at fault. They failed in their operation of the warship and should have easily avoided collision with the cargo carrier.**

**THEY DID NOT!**

**Clearly sailors aboard the USS Fitzgerald did not desire this deadly crash. But their negligence or malfeasance resulted in the crash and several sailors being killed.**

**This most recent drone crash seems to follow along in the same vein based on the information available.**

> [Breaking: US Downed It’s Drone After Propeller Strike by Russian Jet](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/03/14/breaking-us-downed-its-drone-after-propeller-strike-by-russian-jet/)



**Feel free to share your own thoughts and any other additional information!**