As Ukrainian fact notes, citing the findings of the Times, British equipment mockups ‘Ikea style’ are part of a strategy to make the impression that Ukraine has received more weapons from the UK than it actually did.
– We did not hand over immense amounts of equipment, so all we can do to make it look like there is more is for our benefit – said Lowri Simner of Royal AirForce.
War in Ukraine. The British are sending mockups to the front.
As Russian forces increasingly usage to identify targets drones and satellite photos, experts working for Ukraine are developing new, sophisticated methods to deceive the opponent. Unlike the planet War II inflatable tanks, Britain has now created mockups that are very hard to separate from real vehicles.
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Taskforce Kindred, a squad of the Ministry of Defence of large Britain, who deals with Ukrainian requests for fresh equipment, is working on creating a mock-up with manufacture specialists.
Digital photographs of real weapons are printed on material that Ukrainian soldiers can easy and rapidly assemble. The mockups are then placed on front lines to confuse Russian systems.
War in Ukraine. The Russians usage mock-ups, too.
Colonel Ollie Todd, Royal Marine officer and Taskforce Kindred member, explains that the squad has worked on various models including Challenger 2 tank replicas and AS-90 self-propelled artillery systemsthe number of which is limited.
– They look real, you can easy be fooled – he said.
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For all 5 real vehicles sent to Ukraine, The British can besides supply 30 specified mockups. From a distance of about 25 meters it is hard to find whether it is real equipment or not. Therefore, on the Ukrainian front there are already mockups a constant component of the battlefield tactics.
Caterina Chornohorenko, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, notes that Russia besides deploys its own decoys. This includes pseudodrons with a tiny amount of explosives, which forces Ukraine to To waste valuable resources to shoot them down.
In 2023 it was reported that a Czech company Inflactech, specializing in the production of inflatable military equipment models, began production false HIMARS systemsto send them to Ukraine in the face of a full-scale Russian invasion.
