Russia Invades ukraine

[Stubby]

9 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Just seen Putin’s address to the nation.

Pretty weak sauce, lot of Russians will be sitting at home wondering wtf.

Yes , I just watched that . WTF indeed .

[Stubby]

So ,Whilst Ukraine are making slow but positive advances there is still a long way to go . One of their latest ploys is to build an $800 dummy air defense unit ( with a heat source and a radar detectable signature)  partially cover it with camo netting and the tree line . Wait for a Russian recon drone to spot it and the watch it be " destroyed " buy a multi million $ Russian missile ..... You godda love the Ukrainians .

[Rob_the_Sparky]

Other reason for doing that is to reduce fire on the real targets.  Provide as many dummies as real targets and you can halve the incoming fire.  Also, as we did in WW2, to create confusion in the enemy as to where you might attack.  Put dummy forces in various places like you are massing for an attack to disguise where an attack might take place forcing them to spread the defensive forces out.

 

I don't know but as the tactic it is not new so you would have thought the Russians would be up to that sort of thing as well.

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, Rob_the_Sparky said:

Other reason for doing that is to reduce fire on the real targets.  Provide as many dummies as real targets and you can halve the incoming fire.  Also, as we did in WW2, to create confusion in the enemy as to where you might attack.  Put dummy forces in various places like you are massing for an attack to disguise where an attack might take place forcing them to spread the defensive forces out.

 

I don't know but as the tactic it is not new so you would have thought the Russians would be up to that sort of thing as well.

Oh yea I get all that . They had squadrons of inflatable tanks in WW2 to just that .  

[Mark Bolam]

Weren’t you a Commander in one mate?

[Stubby]

15 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Weren’t you a Commander in one mate?

Wide open ! 😁😁😁😁

[openspaceman]

6 hours ago, Stubby said:

Oh yea I get all that . They had squadrons of inflatable tanks in WW2 to just that .  

a dummy airfield quite near you

 

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[daveatdave]

and they used to move the aircraft and trucks (dummies) around so it looked more realistic if they were photo'd regularly. 

[Stubby]

Just seen that a Ukraine tank commander was trying to fix a captured Russian T72 tank . He could not get the turret to rotate and had some oil leaks . So , he phoned up the tank manufacturers in Russia and explained his problem and to his amazement they told him how to fix it ! You godda love the Ukrainians . 🙂  

[Stubby]

With winter arriving the " special military operation " has ground to a halt .  Neither side is making any meaningful headway . The loss of life is astronomical with Russia having lost well over 300,000 men and shed loads of kit .