Killertomato wrote:
ikalugin wrote:
So we compare Afghanistan today with Central front in the 80s? Do I sense a logical mistake in your reasoning?
Ok, which UAV systems did NATO have in the 80s?
Soviets had:
Tupolev Tu-141
(1973-1989)
Tupolev Tu-143
(1973-1989)
Yakovlev Pchela
(it had TV camera for arty targeting)
NATO had the:
Northrop AQM-35
ADM-20 Quail
Ryan Model 147
Lockheed D-21
AQM-91 Firefly
Boeing YQM-94
BAE SkyEye
Ryan YQM-98
BQM-147 Dragon
AAI RQ-2 Pioneer
General Atomics GNAT
Canadair CL-89
Canadair CL-227 Sentinel
HAI Pegasus
Meggitt Banshee
Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH (1960s drone anti-submarine helicopter)
BQM-74 Chukar
Lockheed MQM-105 Aquila

Sure, using WiKi is fun, but I would show you how operational those were prior to 1985 or if they were relevant, starting through the bottom. I would edit this post to add each one.
Lockheed MQM-105 Aquila
1985 still did not reach specification, is within the testing still in 1985. Canceled in 1987.
BQM-74 Chukar
Target drone.
Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH
ASW drone or target tug, irrelevant to the Central theater.
Meggitt Banshee
Target drone, made into rec. version only in 2001. Irrelevant.
HAI Pegasus
Operational only by 2003, subsonic, 10 units produced.
General Atomics GNAT
Desighned in late 80s, irrelevant.
AAI RQ-2 Pioneer
Deployed in 1986, irrelevant.
BQM-147 Dragon
Post 1986, irrelevant.
Ryan YQM-98
Never produced.
Boeing YQM-94
Never produced.
AQM-91 Firefly
Strategic drone, mothballed prior to 1975, irrelevant.
Lockheed D-21
Canceled in 1971, strategic drone, irrelevant.
Ryan Model 147
Strategic drone, canceled in early 1975, irrelevant.
ADM-20 Quail
Decoy missile.
Northrop AQM-35
Target drone.
This is after quick (and incomplete) WiKi check). Rest (3 I think) were tactical systems, without jamm resistant datalinks and with subsonic speeds, makining them incomparable to the long range supersonic soviet models.
It just shows that copy-paste of names lists from WiKi without reading into them is a bad thing.
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