How FPV knocked down the MI-8 RF for $ 10 million: the Armed Forces showed the course and finals of the Air Battle (Video)
At the Battle in Ukraine, the Russians lost an expensive Mi-8 helicopter, which blew up the Baltic's crew of 1 battalion of the height predators of the Armed Forces. The soldiers published a series of personnel, which recorded the moments of FPV with explosives, a moment of hit and fall, fixing the result. It turned out that the damage to the Russians did the 500-dollar UAV SHRIKE, according to the post of Ukrainian military.
The military stressed that successful work was due to the coordinated work of several defense units. In particular, there were scouts, headquarters and drones. In a video published on September 29, we see a detailed course of special operation and air combat. The first fragment is the entry that made the FPV-Dron during departure. The area came into the frame on an unknown front of the front, the road along which the military equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation moves.
In this case, the drone is aimed at the air, not the ground target: the fighters deliberately wrapped the target with a circle to show where the UAV would fly. After that, FPV flies exactly in the Mi-8 direction and cuts into board. In a few seconds, after the frame of the fall, flares of fire and clouds of smoke, a video from the second FPV appeared, which flew to the Russian helicopter. A fully destroyed car enters the frame, so the UAV is turned and flying away, the video testifies.
"Baltic's crew has destroyed the Russian shock helicopter Mi-8 worth more than $ 10 million. And they did it with a small FPV-aternal" Shrike "worth only $ 500," the military wrote. The Defenser Express portal stated that at first there was no clarity that the helicopter was blown up: Mi-8 or Mi-28. As a result, analysts studied the video of the fighters of the battalion "Predators of heights" and made sure that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lost exactly Mi-8.
The commander of Robert Brody wrote about the same. In addition, the commander emphasized that the beating had carried out an FPV-arable and not another means of damage: not anti-aircraft missile, not anti-aircraft drone, etc. It should be noted that on September 29, it became known about the destruction of the Armed Forces helicopter, which took place on the Eastern Front. In the video from the scene, Robert Brody showed a flash at a distance of hundreds of meters.