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For the first time in history: DIU destroys Mi-8 helicopter using Magura naval drone

Another helicopter was damaged. 

For the first time in history: DIU destroys Mi-8 helicopter using Magura naval drone
Group 13 hit the Mi-8 with a missile from a drone
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For the first time in history, the military special forces of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine's Group 13 have hit an air target using a Magura V5 missile-equipped maritime drone. They destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter and shot down another.

The battle took place in the Black Sea near Cape Tarkhankut in the temporarily occupied Crimea. A R-73 SeaDragon missile was used, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported.

One Mi-8 was destroyed.

"Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and managed to reach its home airfield," the DIU said. 

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