{"id":99077,"date":"2024-08-01T22:51:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukrainian-drone-shoots-down-russian-15-million-12-ton-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T22:51:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:51:42","slug":"did-a-ukrainian-drone-just-shoot-down-a-15-million-12-ton-russian-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=99077","title":{"rendered":"Did A Ukrainian Drone Just Shoot Down A $15 Million 12-Ton Russian Helicopter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    In July 2024, a video emerged on social media showing a Russian Mi-8 <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/helicopter\/\">helicopter<\/a> having a near-miss with a Ukrainian FPV drone that swooped in to attack it. The post taunted that the Russians would not be so lucky next time. Now, it is reported that a 2-pound <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukrainian<\/a> FPV drone has successfully brought down a 12-ton Russian Mi-8 helicopter (acknowledging the fog of war; some reports claim it was brought down by friendly fire). The beleaguered <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/has-russian-air-force-lost-10-aircraft-week\/\">Russian Air Force seems to have had a bad week with claims it has lost up to 10 aircraft<\/a> (not all are confirmed, and the figure includes a Wagner loss in Africa).     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent world-first, Ukraine may have shot down a Russian military helicopter with a 2-pound FPV drone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,816,412,3434,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-helicopter","category-military","category-russian-air-force","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99078,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99077\/revisions\/99078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}