The Russians truly are the masters of deception and have enacted a brilliant strategy to build up their armed forced without shelling out billions of dollars: inflatable decoys. Weighing only a couple of hundred pounds each, the realistic looking inexpensive jets can be easily moved and according to the Daily Mail, even “imitate the heat signature of combat units, fooling enemy infra-red detectors.” |Daily Mail|
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but who are they trying to fool?
USA used these at one point too. Pretty sure we still do. Also, 10-to-1 odds that it's American companies responsible for both their manufacture and their sale to foreign militaries.
@Russell: Nope.
"These inflatables are made by the Russian manufacturer Rusbal.
The company was approached by the Russian defence ministry to supply full-scale decoys to protect the true capabilities of their strategic installations from being seen by surveillance satellites."
That is an old trick we used in WW2 – check out 'War Magician (available on amazon 'for the full story. "This is the unique story of the British Stage Magician, Jasper Maskelyne who, when war broke out, offered his 'special skills' to the War Dept."
haha this also reminds me of cargo cults