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

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 downed by a first-person view (FPV) drone, according to local sources and video evidence released by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Video footage posted by the resistance group shows the FPV drone, armed with an explosive warhead and controlled via a fiber-optic lin…

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

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has explored techniques and weapon systems that have spread very quickly also in other theatres of the world. The use of the FPV drones (First Point of View) has in fact quickly spread to the global level since the simplicity of construction and use as well as the ease of finding already on the market various solutions at affordable prices. In the current civil war in Myanmar, begun in 2021, the more continuous use…

Officer among 18 found dead in junta helicopter downed by Kachin fighters

After the first helicopter crashed following an attack by Kachin forces near Bhamo, another helicopter was destroyed in a second attack after making an emergency landing near a junta base in Shwegu