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Ukraine has managed to shoot down a Russian Mi-28 helicopter using a drone, Ukrainian media reported.
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Footage shows a drone hitting the rear propeller of a helicopter in Kursk, Russia.
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It is not the first time that Ukraine has reportedly used drones to attack Russian aircraft.
According to reports, the Ukrainian military has taken out a Russian Mi-28 military helicopter using a cheap remote-controlled drone.
Sources from the Ukrainian intelligence service SBU told Ukrainian media Support line and the Kiev Post that Ukrainian special forces used a remote-controlled drone with first-person view (FPV) to shoot down the helicopter in the Russian region of Kursk.
This is what the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces launched an attack this week a rare cross-border attack.
Russia said a state of emergency had been declared in Kursk following Tuesday’s cross-border raid. It said the raid involving 1,000 Ukrainian troops, 11 tanks and more than 20 armored vehicles.
Footage released by the media shows a drone flying into the propeller at the back of the helicopter and exploding.
The Kyiv Post, citing Russian military bloggers, reported that Russia lost two helicopters in the attack, including a Ka-52 attack helicopter and an Mi-28.
Estimates put the cost of a basic FPV drone between $500 and $1,000. Drone-XLA military helicopter of the Mi-28 type is estimated to cost around $18 million, according to Defensive mirror.
This is not the first time that Ukraine has successfully attacked a Russian helicopter using drones.
In July, Russian military bloggers said Ukraine had shot down a Russian Mi-8 military helicopter using drones in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
According to reports, Ukraine has also recently had success in deploying FPV drones to intercept more expensive Russian reconnaissance drones.
The Ukrainian army has invented the use of cheap drones to monitor the battlefield and equipped them with bombs to Attack Russian armored vehicles and military positions.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), an American think tank, said on wednesday that if Ukraine can build on its recent successes with the “relatively cheap and widely available” drones, it can retain its air defense systems.
Ukraine has improvised and innovated to compensate for Russia’s massive superiority in manpower and materiel during the two-year war against the Russian invasion.
Russia has also increased the number of drones it deploys on the battlefield and is getting better at using electronic warfare against Ukraine, but Ukraine is seen as having an edge when it comes to technological innovation. analysts at the Atlantic Council said in January.
“Russian and Ukrainian forces are engaged in a technological race for offense and defense. Ukraine’s ability to deploy technological innovations on a large scale before Russia adapts is crucial to Ukraine’s ability to offset Russia’s current material advantages,” the ISW said on Wednesday.
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