.ON JULY 31ST pictures of a Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter, crashed and also burning, began spreading on social media. That by itself was not unique: Ukrainian forces have actually obliterated ratings of choppers considering that the Russian attack started. A lot more astonishing was actually the insurance claim in the Ukrainian press that this chopper had been actually downed by a small drone. A video recording released due to the country's armies a couple of times later seemed to be to lend credence to that insurance claim: the footage (see below) shows a drone striking yet another Russian aircraft, this time around an Mi-28 strike helicopter, supposedly forcing it to make an urgent landing. Were these privileged smash hits-- or even indicators of a development in aerial war?