.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, crashed and burning, started spreading on social media sites. That by itself was not uncommon: Ukrainian powers have actually rejected ratings of helicopters given that the Russian invasion began. A lot more shocking was the case in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had actually been actually downed through a small drone.
A video launched by the country’s armies a handful of days later on seemed to be to offer credence to that claim: the video footage (find below) reveals a drone striking yet another Russian plane, this moment an Mi-28 strike chopper, supposedly pushing it to make an emergency touchdown. Was actually these privileged hits– or even indicators of a development in aerial combat?