They did use them - for most of the tracking and targeting, not for attacks, though.

And re. 'Western reluctance': probelm is that except for the USA, nobody else has an operational detection-targeting UAV/UCAV system in…

They did use them - for most of the tracking and targeting, not for attacks, though.

And re. 'Western reluctance': probelm is that except for the USA, nobody else has an operational detection-targeting UAV/UCAV system in service. The French, for example, botched up, and ended buying Israeli systems instead (just like the Russians). And the USA have their own systems, the mass of which is made for operating within an aerial warfare system the fundament of which is ownership of aerial superiority.

Such things are ill-suited for Ukrainian circumstances.