Russia orders £2000 inflatable copies of planes, tanks and missiles to fool enemies

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Russia orders £2000 inflatable copies of planes, tanks and missiles to fool enemies
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Evil	Oct 12 2010, 07:37 AM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 2,968 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: Dec 18, 2008 Region RP Name: Evil Cenotopia Space RP Name: Greys	Quote: The purchase has drawn sharp criticism from military analysts, who say the Kremlin should be spending its oil wealth on buying real military hardware rather than rubber copies. "Inflatable military hardware is most effective in conflict situations when there is a need to confuse the enemy," the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper argued on Tuesday. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7961997/Russia-orders-2000-inflatable-copies-of-planes-tanks-and-missiles-to-fool-enemies.html
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Nuke	Oct 14 2010, 07:28 AM Post #2
Posts: 4,436 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: Dec 19, 2008 Region RP Name: Northern Italian Confederation, Tarkka, Third French Empire Space RP Name: United Federation of Planets	Decoys are rather effective, especially if these are as effective as the Russians claim.
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Evil	Oct 14 2010, 09:02 AM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 2,968 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: Dec 18, 2008 Region RP Name: Evil Cenotopia Space RP Name: Greys	article He said such models were designed to fool satellite and air reconnaissance and that the United States and China had invested heavily in replicas of their own hardware. I was kind of surprised by that statement but I've since read elsewhere that these dummies are effective so I believe it. Still, I don't see how press reports are saying that the U.S. has satellites with resolutions of at least 10 inches but we can't distinguish real equipment from dummies.
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Antartis	Oct 14 2010, 10:23 AM Post #4
Kawaii nee~! Posts: 1,469 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: Dec 30, 2008 Region RP Name: Denmark-Norway-Iceland Space RP Name: Arzhamas	If the Serbians can do it with makeshift wooden decoys, why not the Russians with inflatable ones?
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Hawkeye	Oct 14 2010, 10:44 AM Post #5
Posts: 557 Group: Members Member #19 Joined: Feb 17, 2009 Region RP Name: New England Republic Space RP Name: All-Colonies Empire	That would look pretty convincing from above, actually. Even from an aircraft, let alone a satellite in space.



The Dragon	Oct 14 2010, 04:03 PM Post #6
Posts: 1,010 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: Dec 23, 2008 Region RP Name: Draki Space RP Name: Association of the Nth'ch	hmm, I think the Draki likes this consept, though how we'd employ it I'm not sure..... Nuke, what are the stats for 'dummie' military units???
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Nuke	Oct 15 2010, 07:21 AM Post #7
Posts: 4,436 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: Dec 19, 2008 Region RP Name: Northern Italian Confederation, Tarkka, Third French Empire Space RP Name: United Federation of Planets	The Dragon Oct 14 2010, 04:03 PM hmm, I think the Draki likes this consept, though how we'd employ it I'm not sure..... Nuke, what are the stats for 'dummie' military units??? I assume if you can make balloons and blow-up water slides for kids, then you can make decoy inflatable military equipment. I don't think we're gonna regulate that for now (unless it becomes a serious problem), so have fun.
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