remarkable .. honestly, good to see those who have been thrown into this have a chance to escape ..Chilling video shows desperate Russian soldier surrender to drone on Bakhmut battlefield
A Russian soldier desperate to survive after Ukrainian drones took out his entire unit used hand signals to surrender — before he was guided across enemy lines by the same drones that used explosiv…nypost.com
sigh .. this war never should have been started .. oh, well not much we can do about ( that, the start ) anymore ..Another "Endless European War". In the immortal words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along"?
It was first hit by a air defense and the pilot then decided to drop the tanks and weapon pod.KA-52 .. loses tail when drops fuel tanks, and keeps flying ..
Indeed the KA-52 is one solid flying machine ..It was first hit by a air defense and the pilot then decided to drop the tanks and weapon pod.
That is why the wingman in another Ka-52 is filming it.
But had it been a conventional helicopter, a loss of tail is a guaranteed crash.
In this Ukraine war air defense had the edge against attack helicopters. Only now has the russian side been using them extensively without getting shot. All these while they where using dumb rockets but now they have started to use laser guided ATGM with 8km to 12km range vs 5km range of MANPADS.