Look up "Gorgon Stare". The drone was so equipped and now the Russians have it, in all likelihood. Data from the GS cannot be transmitted, it is too big. I has to be downloaded from the drone itself. Now the Russians will know exactly what the drone was looking at.

Worth the risk of losing a Su-27?

Imagine a corporate oligarchy so effective, so advanced and fine tuned that its citizens still call it a democracy.