.ON JULY 31ST images of a Russian Mi-8 transportation chopper, collapsed as well as burning, began distributing on social networking sites. That by itself was actually certainly not uncommon: Ukrainian pressures have obliterated ratings of choppers given that the Russian invasion began. A lot more shocking was the case in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had actually been downed by a small drone. An online video discharged by the country's armies a couple of days later seemed to lend support to that insurance claim: the footage (view listed below) reveals a drone reaching another Russian aircraft, this time an Mi-28 strike chopper, supposedly forcing it to make an urgent landing. Was actually these blessed hits-- or indicators of an advancement in airborne war?