.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, crashed and burning, started spreading on social media sites. That in itself was actually not unusual: Ukrainian powers have shot down credit ratings of choppers because the Russian intrusion started. Much more astonishing was the claim in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had actually been downed by a tiny drone.
A video released by the nation’s armies a few times later seemed to offer credence to that insurance claim: the video (find listed below) presents a drone reaching yet another Russian airplane, this time an Mi-28 strike chopper, reportedly obliging it to make an urgent touchdown. Were these privileged hits– or even signs of a development in flying warfare?