Tank131
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Reality is that even if they lost 100 TB-2, it has so many kills attributed to it, it would not matter. Before the western nations really started pouring large scale weapons into Ukraine, it was the TB-2 which literally held the Ukrainian lines FOR MONTHS. It was so wildly successful that the UKRAINIAN MILITARY wrote songs about it. It was credited by western media and military analysts as a major factor in Azeri Aerial Supremacy during the War of Nagorno-Karabakh. It has been widely hailed by western sources as one of the key pieces of Ukrainian resistance (and most of these sources are anti-Turk). So anyone claiming it is not a successful weapon is just saying it out of spite. In 4 wars (Lybia, Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Ukraine) it has destroyed 1500+ targets. So if 50, 60, or 70 or even 100 were lost (at an extreme), it is still One of, if not THE MOST successful drone in heavy warfare combat (Predators and Reapers really haven't faced the threat levels in over Afghanistan or Iraq that these have over their war zones compared to the number of sorties they have flown. Even if you give the success towards the Reapers/Predators, TB-2 is top 3 and that is against the top flight US combat drones.
Wing Loong II and Rainbow series have not had the deployment levels to achieve that success BUT im. Sure they could potentially be very potent, but to poo poo the TB-2 is just asanine
Wing Loong II and Rainbow series have not had the deployment levels to achieve that success BUT im. Sure they could potentially be very potent, but to poo poo the TB-2 is just asanine