.ON JULY 31ST photos of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, plunged and burning, began spreading on social networking sites. That by itself was actually certainly not unusual: Ukrainian powers have shot down ratings of helicopters because the Russian intrusion started. So much more shocking was the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this chopper had actually been actually downed by a small drone.
A video released due to the country’s armies a handful of days later on seemed to provide credence to that claim: the video (observe listed below) presents a drone striking another Russian aircraft, this time around an Mi-28 attack helicopter, reportedly pushing it to create an unexpected emergency landing. Was actually these lucky hits– or indications of a breakthrough in aerial war?