.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation helicopter, crashed and also burning, began circulating on social media sites. That by itself was actually not unusual: Ukrainian pressures have obliterated ratings of choppers because the Russian infiltration began. So much more unexpected was actually the insurance claim in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had actually been downed through a small drone.
An online video released by the nation’s armies a few days later on seemed to provide credence to that claim: the footage (find listed below) reveals a drone striking another Russian plane, this time around an Mi-28 assault chopper, supposedly requiring it to make an unexpected emergency touchdown. Was actually these lucky smash hits– or indicators of a discovery in airborne combat?