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Helicopters are useful for all sorts of things in time of war, from strafing the ground to evacuating the wounded. But can they also use air-to-air missiles?

A video purportedly showing a Russian military helicopter narrowly dodging a missile fired by the rebel Wagner mercenary group has gone viral on social media, clocking up more than 510,000 views.

A recent example of this is testing in support of an airworthiness release that will allow the Spike non-line of site missile to be integrated into the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.

Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company.