.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, crashed and also burning, began distributing on social networking sites. That in itself was not unique: Ukrainian forces have obliterated scores of choppers given that the Russian intrusion began. So much more unusual was actually the claim in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had been downed by a small drone.
A video recording launched by the nation’s armies a couple of days eventually seemed to be to give support to that case: the video (view listed below) presents a drone hitting one more Russian aircraft, this time an Mi-28 strike helicopter, supposedly pushing it to create an emergency situation landing. Were these lucky smash hits– or even indicators of an advancement in flying warfare?