A video showing two helicopters being shot down from the evening sky has gone viral on social media as a real incident.
The claim: The video is being shared to claim that it shows two Israeli helicopters being shot down in Palestinian airspace by Hamas forces.
![Several such video game clips have gone viral as real clips from the conflict between Hamas and Israel.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2023-10%2F7e487ee0-6bc5-40e0-8527-d3b04aee201d%2FScreenshot_2023_10_09_at_9_08_30_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
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How did we find out?: In the comments under a claim on X (formerly Twitter), some users mentioned that the video was taken from ARMA 3.
![Several such video game clips have gone viral as real clips from the conflict between Hamas and Israel.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2023-10%2F84588174-7a6d-4d03-8019-da16a33b058b%2FScreenshot_2023_10_10_at_11_39_08_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Comments on the viral post.
(Source: X/Twitter)
Taking a cue from this, we extracted keyframes from the viral videos using InVID WeVerify Google Chrome extension.
We then used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to conduct a reverse image search on some of the keyframes and added an advanced search for "arma helicopter shot down site:youtube.com"
This led to a YouTube Short uploaded by a user KazinkkaWarrior, on 4 October, which predates the ongoing war.
We compared the visuals from the YouTube Shorts with the viral video and found similarities.
![Several such video game clips have gone viral as real clips from the conflict between Hamas and Israel.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2023-10%2Fd2042de7-978c-4ace-a5b7-dafc4d509d7f%2FRujuta_WQ.gif?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Comparison of the visuals from the YouTube Short with the viral video.
(Photo: Altered by The Quint)
The latest on the war:
The conflict between Israeli forces and Palestine's Hamas entered its third day with over 1,500 people losing their lives.
Israel has declared a "complete siege" of Gaza and said that the area is being cut off from water and power supplies.
Conclusion: A video from a video game called ARMA 3 has gone viral as a recent incident from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
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