{"id":15,"date":"2026-07-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/?p=15"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:00:00","slug":"500-dollar-drone-destroys-russian-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"A $500 Ukrainian Drone Just Destroyed a Multi-Million-Dollar Russian Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost asymmetry of modern war in one strike: a $500 FPV drone against a multi-million-dollar Russian helicopter. We break down how the intercept happened and what it means for rotary aviation near the front.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A $500 Ukrainian Drone Just Destroyed a Multi-Million-Dollar Russian Helicopter\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xXy0fF4dwl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost asymmetry of modern war in one strike: a $500 FPV drone against a multi-million-dollar helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drone-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}