r/ukraine • u/GermanDronePilot • 10h ago

WAR Ukrainian FPV drone struck a Russian Mi-28NM attack helicopter in midair. “Prybultsi” air defense unit, 115th Mechanized Brigade. Published 14.10.2026

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u/Opening_Cartoonist53 10h ago

Man, can you imagine the excitement they had as they got it in their sights and chased it down?

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u/Yaro-Ku 9h ago

Really good money-spent ratio!!! 1000 usd to 19 000 000 usd

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u/Chudmont 9h ago

I only wished they would attack from a different angle instead of risking the drone being destroyed by the blades before reaching the airframe.

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u/Opening_Cartoonist53 9h ago edited 9h ago

I assumed it did get hit by the blades and exploded. I guessed the explosion destroyed the blades and helicopters don't like that.

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u/Yaro-Ku 9h ago

I'd prolly go for the tail rotor, cant fly without that

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u/Chudmont 9h ago

I saw that, but, if I'm not mistaken, this also happened a while back where the blades destroyed the drone and the heli kept flying.

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u/Unlucky-Associate266 7h ago

Suchomimus, the careful, well respected YouTuber, said that video by a monitoring drone showed the helicopter flying on after the strike. He didn't say for how long.

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u/DataGeek101 2h ago

In this case, Suchomimus is wrong, the helicopter did crash and three orcs were killed.

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u/Unlucky-Associate266 37m ago

I stand corrected.

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u/Independent-Pay-1172 9h ago

Indeed. This heli kept flying unfortunately (source: suchomimus)

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u/Consistent-Cook-9720 8h ago

Jesus h Christ thinks about it

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u/model-citizen95 9h ago

Excellent! Blow them back to the Stone Age!

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u/hbgwine 9h ago

Like Kaiser Soze in “The Usual Suspects” : “then poof, he was gone”…

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u/hkohne 9h ago

Awesome job!

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u/crotalusbite 9h ago

Reminds me of the tv guided missiles in Battlefield 2

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u/Flaming_Phallus 9h ago

Aha yes, if only these real helicopters also had a massive hitbox by the tail rotor like bf2 that would make life a lot easier!

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u/SidKafizz 9h ago

Great success!

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u/BenVenNL 7h ago

Well done