LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-21 year 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-up192arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up192arrow-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-21 year agomessage-square12linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBombOmOm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year 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-up6·1 year agoLooks like a heat round. Door gunner is very messed up at the least.
minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year 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/
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.
“land it”
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/