Flying low, slow and straight like this anywhere near the frontline while not under/amid a bubble of friendly assets, drones and reconnaisance elements feels equivalent to me of strolling into a dark warehouse in the showdown of a 90s action movie armed to the teeth with a submachine gun but never bother to looking behind you and walking slowly straight ahead like an NPC guard. The hero only needs a metal pipe to ambush you from behind with to win in that scenario.

There is no excuse for the Mi-28, which should be being used for short range mass air defense, operating without a fixed wing high flying reconnasaince drone monitoring from above that could watch the “six” of the helicopter.

Just the rotarwash alone could tumble a drone like this out of the air, if the helicopter was flying in arcing motions where the downwash is directed in a rather unpredictable way (along with pilots training to specifically watch their rear view mirror when flying slow like a driver watching out for someone following them).

I think this is a demonstration of just how highly sophisticated and capable Ukrainian infantry & drone fpv pilots are operating with combined arms support. It takes a lot of work, planning, and rolling the dice until the moment happens to make a moment like this connect, but still flying with this kind of doctrine with an attack helicopter just seems incredibly wasteful and dumb.