.ON JULY 31ST photos of a Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter, collapsed and burning, started circulating on social networking sites. That in itself was actually certainly not unique: Ukrainian pressures have actually shot down credit ratings of helicopters because the Russian attack began. Far more shocking was the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this chopper had actually been actually downed through a tiny drone. A video recording launched due to the nation's militaries a few times later on seemed to give support to that insurance claim: the video (see below) presents a drone striking one more Russian plane, this time around an Mi-28 assault chopper, supposedly pushing it to create an unexpected emergency landing. Was actually these lucky smash hits-- or even signs of an innovation in aerial warfare?