Expecting Something?

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

"The Russian Defence Ministry has ordered elaborate inflatable copies of its most ubiquitous planes, tanks and missiles at a cost of almost £2,000 per model to fool its enemies in future conflicts."
"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."

Historically the vaunted high tech american prowess has been easily hoodwinked by this use of decidedly low tech dummy ruse.
In 1999 when the US and NATO bombed the crap out of Serbian forces in Kosovo, this was typical of the headlines you saw in the media after 11 weeks of intense bombing and missile strikes that killed far more civilians than army personnel:

Serb army 'unscathed by Nato' - "Nato officers have been astonished that thousands of Yugoslav tanks, missile launchers, artillery batteries, personnel carriers and trucks have been withdrawn from the province with barely a scratch on them. At least 60,000 Yugoslav troops - rather than the 40,000 estimated - were waiting to fight the Western armies in Kosovo."

What the Serbs did was to extensively use fakes that completely fooled the idiots in the pentagon. With virtually unlimited firepower and gung ho brains stoked on amphetamines, desperate for ego massaging praise, american warriors repeatedly thought they were pulverizing massive amounts of Serb military hardware when they were merely blowing up wooden and rubber planes, tanks and missile launchers. I remember reading about Serbs laughing as cheap microwave ovens were used to simulate radar signatures with fake missile batterys, totally wasting NATO's murderous efforts. Phony bridges were quickly built over rivers and were destroyed again and again by million dollar cruise missiles. The Russians know what they're doing.