By Will Stewart and Tim Stickings For Mailonline
Published: 14:42 BST, 9 May 2019 | Updated: 14:45 BST, 9 May 2019
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This is the moment a Russian warplane flies perilously close to an American spy drone in footage thought to have been filmed over Syria.
The clip shows one of Moscow's Sukhoi Su-30 fighters making a 'dangerous pass' close to an American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
Pro-government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta mocked the $17million spy and attack drone with the headline: 'Peek-a-boo, my little one'.
The footage was posted online by someone who claims to be a Russian military pilot.
In it, the Russian fighter approaches its American counterpart from behind and from a lower altitude.
The drone's cameras mean that the Russian flypast would have been spotted by remote controllers.
Western watchers said the Kremlin's plane had carried out a 'dangerous pass'.
The Kremlin has
