.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transportation chopper, plunged as well as burning, started spreading on social media. That by itself was certainly not uncommon: Ukrainian forces have obliterated scores of helicopters considering that the Russian attack began. Much more astonishing was the claim in the Ukrainian push that this helicopter had actually been actually downed through a little drone. A video released by the nation's armed forces a couple of times later seemed to lend credence to that claim: the video footage (observe below) shows a drone striking one more Russian aircraft, this time around an Mi-28 strike chopper, reportedly obliging it to create an emergency landing. Were these blessed smash hits-- or even indicators of an advance in aerial warfare?