McDonnell ADM-20 Quail decoy

[NMaude]

Does anyone have any links or documents concerning technical data about the ADM-20 Quail?

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Does anyone have any links or documents concerning technical data about the ADM-20 Quail?

This might help.... Mark

 

[NMaude]

Thanks.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Additional info

 

[NMaude]

I hope that after the Quail was retired it wasn't scrapped because would've a terrible waste as since there were designed to mimimic the radar signature of a B-52 they would've made perfect targets for SAM and AAM tests along with being a target for live fire missile target practice.

 

[Hood]

Interesting info on the Quail but it seems to be in the wrong thread, this thread was originally about Soviet decoy missiles...

 

[NMaude]

Interesting info on the Quail but it seems to be in the wrong thread, this thread was originally about Soviet decoy missiles...

Well is there a thread about the ADM-20?

 

[Hood]

Well is there a thread about the ADM-20?

Not specifically although there is this one: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...d-dog-and-adm-20-quail-decoy.3226/#post-25948

It just seems odd to be discussing US hardware in a thread meant for Soviet hardware. Maybe a global mod can change to title to reflect Cold War decoy missiles more generally?

 

[mkellytx]

I hope that after the Quail was retired it wasn't scrapped because would've a terrible waste as since there were designed to mimimic the radar signature of a B-52 they would've made perfect targets for SAM and AAM tests along with being a target for live fire missile target practice.

Worry not about its life in the scrap yard. Today there are decoys which mimic the radar signature and that are carried in much larger quantities. FWIW, I helped integrate the MALD onto the BUFF.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Interesting info on the Quail but it seems to be in the wrong thread, this thread was originally about Soviet decoy missiles...

I guess they would use specialized versions of the Raduga KS-1 Komet and the Raduga KSR-2 Kelt cruise missiles.

 

[NMaude]

Worry not about its life in the scrap yard.

It's just that when the Quail was retired in the mid-70s it would've made a perfect target drone for testing new surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles along with being used in target practice with live missiles.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

@NMaude next time, try posting a new topic in the correct section.

I've created a topic for Quail and moved the posts here.

 

[NMaude]

@NMaude next time, try posting a new topic in the correct section.

I've created a topic for Quail and moved the posts here.

Thanks.

 

[Ronny]

From what I found, ADM-20 was phased out because it was so easy to identify compared to B-52, I wonder what the reason is

 

[NMaude]

While the ADM-20 was clearly obsolete by the mid 1970s I don't know why they weren't expended as missile targets as they would've been perfect and it would've saved the DoD the costs of de-militarising them.

 

[TomcatViP]

Humm probably not fits SAC strategy to council war wary B-52 RCS signature.

 

[Ronny]

While the ADM-20 was clearly obsolete by the mid 1970s

It a bit weird given that ITALD and MALD is still used so much later on, ADM-20 even have a repeater jammer, i wonder what make it obsolete