Models can be very useful

[keyser]

Resourceful. 
Some great model companies there, another board poster ordered and got a kit from ??fairly quickly. 
Reminds me of Hogan’s Heroes. 
 

Wasted Kalibr missiles are ~$980000. 
Bang for your buck!???‍♂️

Edited August 30, 2022 by keyser
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[Can-Con]

Link's no good. You have to subscribe to see the page.

[Mike C.]

We (the U.S. army) did something similar with the Germans in WWII oly with inflatable decoys. Another "bang for your buck" type of thing.

[Oldcarfan27]

I love when military might is outdone by a little tactical ingenuity. 

I remember when one country (can't remember which?) Would prop up plywood tanks and planes to draw out enemy fire and then zone in on where it was coming from. Called "smoking out the enemy".

[stitchdup]

22 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

I love when military might is outdone by a little tactical ingenuity. 

I remember when one country (can't remember which?) Would prop up plywood tanks and planes to draw out enemy fire and then zone in on where it was coming from. Called "smoking out the enemy".

Ukraine are doing that now with wooden himars

[Mike 1017]

Some more info on greatest deception of all times. Sorry Trojan Horse you got knocked to 2nd.

Deception at D-Day: How Fake Armies, False Radio Traffic and Even Rubber Tanks Helped Fool Hitler | The National Interest

[StevenGuthmiller]

4 hours ago, Mike C. said:

We (the U.S. army) did something similar with the Germans in WWII oly with inflatable decoys. Another "bang for your buck" type of thing.

Operation Fortitude, as it was called, was a decoy used to make the Germans think that the D-Day invasion was going to take place at Calais rather than Normandy.

 

 

 

Steve

[Mike C.]

46 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Operation Fortitude, as it was called, was a decoy used to make the Germans think that the D-Day invasion was going to take place at Calais rather than Normandy.

 

 

 

Steve

I remember watching more than one documentary on it, but they were both a while ago.

[keyser]

Harder to do now with sat imaging, with id assume IR/hi resolution so night not an issue anymore. Still need drones for eyes on, so must be quite convincing details.