.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation helicopter, plunged and also burning, started flowing on social networks. That in itself was actually certainly not unique: Ukrainian powers have actually shot down scores of helicopters due to the fact that the Russian attack started. Far more shocking was the case in the Ukrainian press that this helicopter had actually been actually downed through a little drone. A video clip launched by the nation's armed forces a few times eventually seemed to be to lend support to that case: the footage (see listed below) presents a drone hitting one more Russian aircraft, this time around an Mi-28 strike chopper, apparently forcing it to make an emergency landing. Were these blessed favorites-- or even indicators of a breakthrough in airborne warfare?