FPV Drone Warfare in Myanmar: Mi-17 Helicopter Allegedly Downed by FPV Drone in Myanmar’s Escalating Conflict

From Saudi Arabia to Myanmar and Iraq to Ethiopia, governments and militaries around the world are stockpiling Chinese combat drones and deploying them on the battlefield....

A Mi-17 Helicopter brought down by Rebel Group KIA in Kachin State with FPV drone

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) reported that it shot down a Myanmar military transport helicopter, which crash-landed after an attack in Kachin State. According to KIA spokesperson Colonel Naw Bu, KIA forces targeted the helicopter on a football field near the headquarters of Infantry Battalion 56 in Shwegu town, using bombs and subsequent drone strikes to destroy the aircraft. On Tuesday Irrwaddy reported, Colonel Naw Bu stated that two ou…

FPV Drone Warfare in Myanmar: Mi-17 Helicopter Allegedly Downed by FPV Drone in Myanmar’s Escalating Conflict

In a dramatic demonstration of how modern warfare tactics are quickly spreading beyond their original battlegrounds, a first-person view (FPV) drone attack—eerily similar to those pioneered in Ukraine—has reportedly brought down a Myanmar military Mi-17 Hip helicopter. The incident, which… The post FPV Drone Warfare in Myanmar: Mi-17 Helicopter Allegedly Downed by FPV Drone in Myanmar’s Escalating Conflict appeared first on The Asia Live.

Myanmar Rebels Use FPV Drone to Down Mi-17 Military Helicopter

A Myanmar military Mi-17 helicopter was downed on May 21 during a supply mission near Bhamo, Kachin State, in what is possibly the first confirmed instance of a helicopter being […]

Inspired by Ukraine. A rebel operator managed to hit a military helicopter using a cheap drone. The use of unmanned aircraft is becoming an increasingly popular tactic on many battlefields.

There are indications from Burma that a helicopter used by the Burmese junta was shot down by the local guerrillas, with a suicide bomber drone. A tactic already at work in Ukraine, which prefigures an evolution of the war. It was a finding that was already being made on the side of the war marines: the