.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation helicopter, crashed as well as burning, started circulating on social networking sites. That in itself was actually certainly not unique: Ukrainian pressures have shot down scores of helicopters given that the Russian infiltration began. Much more unexpected was the case in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had actually been actually downed through a tiny drone. A video clip released due to the nation's armed forces a handful of days later seemed to lend support to that claim: the video (observe listed below) presents a drone reaching another Russian airplane, this time an Mi-28 assault chopper, reportedly requiring it to make an unexpected emergency landing. Was actually these lucky favorites-- or even signs of an advance in aerial war?