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Both on the front line and behind it, in the rear, false targets are of particular importance – high-quality mock-ups imitating tanks, artillery guns, rocket launchers, armored vehicles. The use of such false targets disorients the enemy and forces him to waste his ammunition, including expensive missiles.
In Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces actively use false targets, placing them both near the front line and at a distance from it. The American TV channel CNN told about the manufacture of such false targets. They are made at the company "Metinvest" of the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
All false targets, the TV channel notes, are high-quality layouts, which are created by experienced and qualified craftsmen. In the footage shown by the TV channel, we can see both the process of creating mock-ups of weapons in the workshop of the enterprise, and false targets already placed in forest plantations.
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The Ukrainian command relies on the fact that Russian troops, detecting false targets with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles and other means of reconnaissance, will strike at them, spending their missiles.
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Image source: topwar.ru
Image source: topwar.ru
In addition, false information about the presence of a large number of tanks, artillery and other enemy military equipment in a certain area can disorient the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, according to the AFU command, and then Russian troops can keep more numerous contingents in this area, weakening the defense in other areas, as well as transfer their own weapons and military equipment.