.ON JULY 31ST images of a Russian Mi-8 transportation chopper, plunged and also burning, started flowing on social networking sites. That by itself was certainly not unusual: Ukrainian pressures have shot down ratings of choppers since the Russian attack started. Much more astonishing was the insurance claim in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had been actually downed by a little drone.
A video recording discharged by the nation’s militaries a few days later appeared to offer credence to that claim: the video (observe listed below) presents a drone reaching yet another Russian airplane, this moment an Mi-28 strike helicopter, supposedly pushing it to make an unexpected emergency landing. Was actually these blessed hits– or indicators of an advancement in aerial war?