Pilots of the 59th Brigade’s Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter with an FPV drone

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1. First in history?

2. holy fuck, it has finally happened.

   Ukranian fpv pilots are insane.

3. Awesome, been waiting for this!

4. Right in the fuel tank too! Buy that team a round of beer

5. And here it is. I wasn’t sure we will get the POV from the drone so soon. I guess we won’t have the POV from the Russian crew.

6. this is some insane footage. been waiting to see this for YEARS. there have been soo many close calls…

   apparently there is Ukrainian infiltration deep behind enemy lines. attempts at heli launch sites lines by fpvs and manpads havent been posted in a long time. i wonder if that 2nd fpv, conducting the after action recon, was meant for the ka-50 attack chopper which was HAULING to get out of there as fast as possible…

   and these drones must have some serious anti ew bc from the freezing of the observation drone footage. they are definitely DEEP into RU territory.

7. Badaboom!

8. I wish I could see the reaction and celebration of the team

9. Holy shit. I now wonder if there is anything safe from a drone attack. Drones are just going to get better.

10. I can only imagine how hyped the drone operator was

11. Ka52 next 

12. 2024: ‚remember to hug the ground to avoid AA‘

    2025: ‚forget what we said about ground-hugging, nowhere is safe!‘

13. Fly high: Manpads or Gbads

    Fly low: FPV it is

14. That’s awesome. Imagine the cheering in the drone pilot bunker.

15. You can even see someone in the very last frame lol

16. How many points do the drone crew get for a helicopter???

17. I’m pretty sure we are going to see Rendezook maneuver sometime in this war and it will be recorded on multiple cameras 😀

18. Reminds me of maneuver someone would try to in a Battlefield game, the drone at the end was searching for survivors but I guess none survived.

19. Wow! Amazingly well done and what a juicy target for a cheap little drone.

20. Ain’t no way. It finally happened! We’ve seen some close shaves with FPV with helicopters, so It was bound to happen eventually

    Go Ukraine!

21. I hope someone had a good meal that evening.

22. That’s a first afaik, usually because of the wind caused by rotor blades it’s very hard to engage a heli with an fpv drone. Crazy war this has been

23. D&B going worldwide 🔥🔥🔥

24. like an air-mine. what was the name of the song again? something prodigy?

25. Ha! They finally did it!

26. I know they celebrated this like a winning world cup goal. What a fucking hit boys.

27. Just out of curiosity, Is there anything that helicopters in the future to prevent this from happening?

    Because a man hanging on the ductaped to the side with a shotgun would look very silly haha

28. Yet another L for Russian helicopter forces lmao.

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