Over the dark waters of the Kerch Strait, a swarm of Russian Mi-8 gunship helicopters swoops down through the winter night toward their prey: a group of Ukrainian Sea Baby naval drones. Despite their ...

The gunship helicopter has been identified as an Mi-8. BY: Military Watch© Knewz (CA) The second footage showed another Shahed drone being decimated using the helicopter’s nose-mounted machine gun.

The Mi-8 is commonly used as a transport helicopter, but it can also be reconfigured as an airborne command post, an armed gunship, or a reconnaissance platform.