re: the ninja blade chopper, see the reddit thread below. Evidence suggests it was an Israeli illumination round that ...
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In a longer version of the video you can see yellow markings on the canister, implying it's an illumination round which has probably burned out and fell down on the unluckiest guy imaginable
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https://imgur.com/0Xei2op?r
Unfortunately, no acoustic analysis which I'm sure would have proven it was a R9X (source: the acoustic analysis on JDAM that caused the 1 ft crater). But if it was an illumination round, that would mean it was unguided and therefore, wasn't meant to land on that poor guy.