.ON JULY 31ST images of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, collapsed and also burning, started spreading on social networking sites. That by itself was actually certainly not unusual: Ukrainian pressures have shot down credit ratings of helicopters due to the fact that the Russian intrusion started. Far more surprising was actually the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this chopper had actually been downed through a little drone. An online video discharged by the country's armies a handful of days later on seemed to be to lend credence to that insurance claim: the video (observe below) reveals a drone reaching one more Russian plane, this moment an Mi-28 strike chopper, apparently requiring it to make an emergency landing. Was actually these privileged hits-- or even indications of an advance in flying combat?