.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation helicopter, collapsed and burning, began circulating on social media. That by itself was actually not uncommon: Ukrainian pressures have actually shot down credit ratings of helicopters given that the Russian intrusion began. Much more astonishing was actually the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this helicopter had been actually downed through a small drone.
A video released by the country’s militaries a couple of days later seemed to be to provide credence to that claim: the footage (view below) shows a drone reaching an additional Russian aircraft, this time around an Mi-28 strike chopper, apparently forcing it to create an emergency touchdown. Were these privileged favorites– or signs of a development in aerial combat?