Mias a Russian helicopter was shot down over Ukrainian territory, according to a recent video posted on the internet. The whole occasion took place in Luhansk Oblast, Donbass zone, in eastern Ukraine.
The images below show a Russian Mi-28 Havoc helicopter being hit by a missile fired by a MANPADS system. The tail of the aircraft was badly damaged right at the moment of the attack, as we can see in the video below.
The Mi-28 Havoc helicopter consequently crashed. The crew managed to get out of the aircraft alive, according to sources at the scene. There is no confirmation whether Ukrainian forces captured the military.
Ukraine's MANPADS system is ensuring a fair amount of Russian plane kills, including a well-filmed ground-to-air attack of a Russian Mi-35 attack helicopter being shot down. Click Here and watch the video.
Some sources, such as one found by the site The Times, point out that Ukraine is already using the MANPADS Starstreak system, recently supplied by the United Kingdom, and that this was used in the attack on the Mi-28. It is also not possible to identify whether Ukraine used a Javelin system in this attack.
We call MANPADS the portable systems with surface-to-air missiles, often launched from the shoulder of a military man. These are heat or frequency guided weapons to the desired target.
