.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation helicopter, collapsed as well as burning, started flowing on social media sites. That in itself was actually certainly not uncommon: Ukrainian pressures have actually shot down ratings of choppers considering that the Russian invasion started. A lot more shocking was the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this helicopter had actually been downed by a tiny drone. An online video released by the nation's militaries a few days later on seemed to offer credence to that claim: the footage (observe listed below) presents a drone reaching one more Russian plane, this time around an Mi-28 assault chopper, supposedly compeling it to make an emergency touchdown. Was actually these privileged smash hits-- or even indicators of a breakthrough in aerial combat?