Ukrainian special forces have released a video of a naval drone shooting down a Russian military helicopter flying off the Crimean coast in the first successful sea-to-air engagement of its kind.
Team “13” of Ukraine’s military intelligence, HUR, said that they had carried out a raid on Crimea on Tuesday morning, with their drones firing missiles at a pair of Russian Mi-8 helicopters dispatched to sink them.
The video, apparently filmed by a drone, shows it ploughing through the waves as machinegun bullets rained from a helicopter above. The feed then switches to a targeting camera showing the Mi-8 gunship in the drone’s crosshairs, before it launched a pair of missiles from the swell.
The first Mi-8 pops flares as it attempts to evade one