.ON JULY 31ST images of a Russian Mi-8 transportation chopper, plunged as well as burning, started distributing on social networking sites. That in itself was actually certainly not uncommon: Ukrainian pressures have actually rejected ratings of choppers given that the Russian intrusion began. Much more unusual was the insurance claim in the Ukrainian push that this helicopter had actually been actually downed by a tiny drone. A video released due to the country's armies a couple of times later seemed to lend support to that claim: the footage (see listed below) presents a drone striking an additional Russian aircraft, this time around an Mi-28 attack helicopter, apparently forcing it to make an urgent landing. Was actually these privileged smash hits-- or even indications of an innovation in aerial combat?