Actors gotta act…and get paid. Follow the money.
$23M drone dropped by a hundred dollars of JP4. Thinking Putin licked his pencil after this. Of course the vidya we got has a huge dropout and splice to a bent propeller, but if you look at the tail of the drone, the figher would've had to take out the tail to hit the prop. I'm thinking the bent prop was a post-production excuse for losing an expensive asset. Not saying it couldn't happen, but if pilots generally try to avoid actually crashing into things with their planes. Also, if the fighter wanted to flip the drone, it's very easily done.
It wouldn't get bent hitting JP4. I'm thinking they got blinded and/or flamed out from taking an oil bath and cut in some footage of a bent prop to blame on the close approach.
It's lighter than water and we fly in pouring rain with the props wide open all the time. The JP4/Jet-A didn't do anything to the prop. Water cleans your plane off pretty nicely. I used to look for rain shafts on nice days for quick plane wash. JP4 is basically liquid paraffin and coating the whole a/c, it's sensors, lenses, controls, and a bunch into the turbine intake is probably unhealthy for continued controlled flight…and the Russians would know that.
It's called a dump but at jet speeds it's an aerosol almost instantly. Who knows? The real answers are under a cover sheet and will be for a while.