.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation helicopter, crashed and burning, started distributing on social networks. That by itself was actually certainly not uncommon: Ukrainian pressures have rejected scores of choppers due to the fact that the Russian attack started. Far more unexpected was actually the claim in the Ukrainian push that this chopper had been actually downed by a small drone. A video recording launched due to the nation's militaries a few days later on seemed to lend credence to that case: the video footage (view below) presents a drone hitting an additional Russian airplane, this time an Mi-28 strike helicopter, reportedly forcing it to make an emergency situation landing. Was actually these lucky hits-- or signs of a breakthrough in airborne combat?