Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons

jamax writes "According to the BBC: 'The Russian military has come up with an inventive way to deceive the enemy and save money at the same time: inflatable weapons. They look just like real ones: they are easy to transport and quick to deploy. You name it, the Russian army is blowing it up: from pretend tanks to entire radar stations.' But the interesting thing is these decoys are not dumb - actually they appear to be highly advanced for what I thought was a WWII-grade aerial photography countermeasures. Apparently they have heat signatures comparable with the military tech they represent, as well as the same radar signature."

Comments

Re:"Quaker guns"

[ultramarweeni]

Quaker guns?

The only such guns I know of are shotgun, double-barrelled shotgun, chaingun, grenade and rocket launchers and of course the shaft.

Didn't even need these during the cold war

[hex0D]

Many US defense analysts were more than happy to credit non-existent assets to the Russians to increase military spending.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap : Realizing that mere belief in the gap was an extremely effective funding source, a series of similarly nonexistent Soviet military advances were constructed in a tactic now known as "policy by press release." These included claims of a nuclear-powered bomber, supersonic VTOL flying saucers, and only a few years later, the "missile gap."

Re:Kinda like Quaker Guns from the US Civil War

[MichaelKristopeit 32]

if you continue pretending to be me, i will find you, and i will kill you.