.ON JULY 31ST photos of a Russian Mi-8 transport chopper, crashed as well as burning, began spreading on social networking sites. That in itself was actually certainly not unusual: Ukrainian pressures have actually rejected ratings of choppers given that the Russian infiltration began. A lot more astonishing was actually the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this helicopter had actually been downed by a tiny drone. A video released by the country's armed forces a few days later seemed to be to lend support to that claim: the video (observe listed below) shows a drone striking one more Russian plane, this moment an Mi-28 strike helicopter, supposedly requiring it to make an emergency landing. Was actually these privileged smash hits-- or signs of an innovation in flying war?