LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-28 days ago[Combat] The 59th Brigade of the Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter with an FPV drone near Kotliarivka, Donetsk Oblast.NSFWi.imgur.comvideomessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up191arrow-down1video[Combat] The 59th Brigade of the Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter with an FPV drone near Kotliarivka, Donetsk Oblast.NSFWi.imgur.comLaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-28 days agomessage-square12linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBombOmOm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-28 days agoThat door gunner almost certainly isn’t. And, at least one of the pilots lived at least long enough to land it. Past that, hard to tell from the video.
minus-squareFluorideMind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 days agoLooks like a heat round. Door gunner is very messed up at the least.
minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 days agoIt looks like the mi-8 had external fuel tanks installed. Thats the tank just behind the door gunner. In this video you can see the tank on fire. https://kyivindependent.com/fpv-drone-destroys-russian-mi-28n-helicopter-military-says/ And it was a PG-7M https://militarnyi.com/en/articles/downing-of-russian-mi-8-by-predators-of-the-heights-details-from-the-unit-and-the-pilot/
minus-squareunpossum@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 days agoIt’s an unmanned system, there is no crew.
Is the crew safe?
That door gunner almost certainly isn’t. And, at least one of the pilots lived at least long enough to land it.
Past that, hard to tell from the video.
Looks like a heat round. Door gunner is very messed up at the least.
It looks like the mi-8 had external fuel tanks installed. Thats the tank just behind the door gunner.
In this video you can see the tank on fire.
https://kyivindependent.com/fpv-drone-destroys-russian-mi-28n-helicopter-military-says/
And it was a PG-7M
https://militarnyi.com/en/articles/downing-of-russian-mi-8-by-predators-of-the-heights-details-from-the-unit-and-the-pilot/
“land it”
It’s an unmanned system, there is no crew.
I hope not