The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has accused Russia of using inflatable tanks in the ongoing intrusion of Ukraine . According to a Facebook stake on Thursday , some of the " rubber eraser " tank have since puncture .
" While our married person agree to provide cooler to Ukraine , the occupation army is also increase the comportment of ' tank units ' in theZaporizhzhiadirection , " aFacebook translation of the station read .
" But apparently , the free aura of the Cossack area is not suitable for the occupiers ' ' rubber ' product , so they are blown away without execute their main mission . Like the bloated bravado of the Rosarmy . "
The use of inflatable tanks by Russia goes back decades but eventually tailed off . Then in 2010 , the company that make up the inflatablestold The New York Timesthat they had suddenly increased their output .
The story of decoys in war , of course , goes back a fortune further . Decoy tanks were used a important amount in World War II . One squad – cognise as the Ghost Squad – were tasked with lead on the Nazis , using tactics such as inflatable tank , well-grounded effects , invented generals and fake radiocommunication traffic .
There are story amongst the military , most likelytoo good to be dead on target , that the Nazis set up one military stem made completely of Sir Henry Wood in edict to perturb the Allies . fit in to the tale , the Allies experience about the dummy plane , but still sent over bombers , who drop a lot of wooden bombs .
Though both sides did use decoy air fields and other inflatables , this particular history is probable just an urban legend . Apart from a number of other job with it , fake airwave fields at the time would have been made much more cheaply usingstretched fabric across plywood framesrather than Sir Henry Wood .
So far , Ukraine has not taken the time during an intense warfare to fly a rubber balloon over to the tank car with the Holy Writ " dud " on it . However , they have used decoy tactic during the invasion . In August 2022 , theyreportedly used wooden replicasof US rocket arm in an attempt to deceive the Russian invaders .
