.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, plunged and burning, began distributing on social media sites. That by itself was certainly not unique: Ukrainian pressures have shot down credit ratings of choppers considering that the Russian intrusion started. Much more unexpected was actually the claim in the Ukrainian push that this helicopter had been downed through a little drone. A video released due to the country's armies a couple of days later on seemed to be to lend support to that case: the video (observe listed below) reveals a drone reaching one more Russian aircraft, this time around an Mi-28 strike chopper, supposedly compeling it to make an emergency situation landing. Were these blessed favorites-- or even indicators of an innovation in airborne war?