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This is the striking moment Ukrainian fighters shoot down a high-tech Russian helicopter worth £12million with a British-made surface-to-air missile.
Soldiers from the Ukrainian 95th Air Assault Brigade, based in Zhytomyr, the north west of Ukraine, used a Martlet, known as Starstreak in the UK, missile to attack the nearby Russian Kamov KA-52 helicopter.
The Russian, single-seat attack helicopter is nicknamed the 'Black Shark' and has been described as Russia's 'deadliest helicopter' because of its battlefield management system which allows it to share data with other aircraft to coordinate attack operations.
Despite its £12million price tag, it was not able to spot the Ukrainian missile in time as within 30 seconds of the Martlet being launched, the KA-52 was shot down.
The Martlet missile is a lightweight surface-to-air weapon developed for the UK by Thales Air Defence, named after the martlet, a mythical English bird that never roosts.
It was designed to be launched from a range of air, land and sea platforms at a variety of targets, with super high precision which reduces the
