Russia painted fake fighter jets at its airfields, new satellite images show, likely to trick Ukraine into not blowing up the real deal
Russia painted fake fighter jets at its airfields, new satellite images show, likely to trick Ukraine into not blowing up the real deal
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Russia painted fake fighter jets at its airfields, new satellite images show, likely to trick Ukraine into not blowing up the real deal
Feels like something I’d read about in WWII.
Decoys are as old as war itself. Every army has used them and they will keep using them. Business as usual here.
Totally. Ukraine uses HIMARS decoys that have proven really effective.
Literally. My grandfather worked for De Haviland. They painted bomb damage of the roof of the factory so the Nazis would think they already bombed it and De Haviland could keep putting out aircraft meanwhile.
The US used fake tanks in the gulf war
There are also stories that the allies also spotted Germany building a decoy airfield at some point during the war. It included wooden aircraft, trucks, etc. When the construction was complete the allies supposedly sent a single bomber that dropped a wooden bomb on the site.
No idea if these stories are true though… Snopes calls it “unproven”…
Normandy, IIRC had one of the beaches, the tanks were mostly inflatable of the inflatable sort to try and pull resources from the main advance.
Also, iirc the early jet program used plywood props with fake spinners to conceal the planes on the runway.