.ON JULY 31ST images of a Russian Mi-8 transportation helicopter, crashed and burning, started flowing on social networks. That by itself was actually certainly not unique: Ukrainian pressures have rejected ratings of helicopters due to the fact that the Russian infiltration began. A lot more unexpected was the claim in the Ukrainian press that this chopper had been actually downed through a small drone. An online video released due to the nation's armed forces a handful of days later seemed to be to lend credence to that case: the video footage (see below) shows a drone striking an additional Russian plane, this time around an Mi-28 attack chopper, reportedly forcing it to make an emergency situation landing. Was actually these blessed smash hits-- or indications of a breakthrough in aerial war?