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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
So what was that Soviet UAV picked up over Western Europe in the 1970s that was mistaken for a MiG-25R recon Foxbat? Yastreb is the name I heard, IIRC.
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Yastreb would be correct, it's Russian for hawk or falcon if I remember right.
It was the Tupolev Tu-123, introduced into service in the mid-1960s and based in the Western military districts.
I'm at work at the moment so unfortunately there's only a few pages on the Tu-123 I can access but there's a number of websites and even YouTube videos if you do a search for Tu-123.
As a drone, it's a massive aircraft, have a look at the third website listed below for some pics of it on it's carrier truck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-123
http://www.kamov.net/russian-aircraft/tupolev-tu-123/
http://kevsaviationpics.blogspot.com...3-yastreb.html