.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation chopper, plunged and burning, started circulating on social networks. That in itself was not uncommon: Ukrainian forces have actually rejected scores of choppers because the Russian infiltration started. A lot more astonishing was the claim in the Ukrainian push that this helicopter had actually been actually downed through a tiny drone.
A video recording launched due to the country’s militaries a handful of days later on seemed to give support to that claim: the video footage (find listed below) presents a drone striking one more Russian aircraft, this moment an Mi-28 strike helicopter, supposedly obliging it to make an emergency landing. Were these blessed favorites– or even signs of an advancement in aerial war?