.ON JULY 31ST images of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, plunged and also burning, started distributing on social media. That by itself was actually certainly not unique: Ukrainian pressures have actually rejected credit ratings of helicopters given that the Russian attack began. A lot more astonishing was the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this chopper had actually been actually downed through a little drone. A video launched by the country's armies a few times eventually seemed to be to offer support to that insurance claim: the footage (view listed below) reveals a drone hitting another Russian aircraft, this moment an Mi-28 assault chopper, supposedly pushing it to make an urgent landing. Was actually these fortunate smash hits-- or even signs of an advance in aerial war?