Tourist
How many times do we have to go over this? Using a HAV in Afghanistan would have been a complete disaster:
1. The Seistan is a 4 month long wind averaging 100mph at lower levels and upwards.
2. The Taliban have DShK and ZPU-2 capable of hitting things at medium level (especially if slow) aand the second national sport, after kite flying, is kite (or large balloon) shooting. They might even field something bigger for such a large slow-moving target.
3. Above the AAA the medium level winds are regularly 80kts or so.
4. Force Protection of such a large blimp on the ground would be an utter disaster.
Utter folly believing that HAV would have been a silver bullet for Afghan ISR...
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