.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter, crashed as well as burning, started spreading on social networking sites. That by itself was not unusual: Ukrainian forces have actually obliterated scores of choppers given that the Russian intrusion started. A lot more unusual was actually the claim in the Ukrainian push that this helicopter had been actually downed by a small drone. A video clip launched by the nation's armies a couple of times eventually seemed to offer credence to that claim: the footage (find below) presents a drone attacking an additional Russian aircraft, this time an Mi-28 strike helicopter, reportedly pushing it to make an emergency situation touchdown. Was actually these lucky hits-- or indications of an innovation in aerial war?