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Beau says:
Russia's tactic of painting bombers as decoys may not be as silly as it seems, with potential plans to outsmart mission planners.
Military Analysts
The full transcript provides a detailed analysis of Russia's unconventional military tactics, offering insights into potential strategies and their implications for modern warfare.
#Russia #MilitaryTactics #Decoys #Bombers #SatelliteImagery
Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So today, we are going to talk about some paintings
that have surfaced in Russia.
We are going to talk about some tactics from a bygone era.
We're going to talk about how this may be an update
to older tactics and may not be as silly
as it seems at first glance.
OK, so satellite imagery has revealed
that Russia is painting bombers on the ground
at their air bases as decoys.
Now, before you laugh, back in the day,
this would have been effective.
It really would have.
Today, not so much.
It's pretty easy to tell that these are not
three-dimensional objects, even though they
have put tires on the paintings on the ground.
So the obvious read is that Russia is hoping this will disrupt targeting of these bombers.
They're expensive and somebody, I don't think Ukraine has said it was them, but somebody
has been targeting them.
So they've painted fake ones on the ground and put tires on them.
The obvious read here is that Russia's resolution when it comes to their satellites and their
other airborne imagery isn't great and they think this will still work.
It won't.
good enough to pass like the civilian stuff that we have access to. It's pretty obvious
that they are paintings, especially when in at least one case they didn't finish the painting.
So that's the obvious read and that's the take that is out there. I have another suggestion and
it's something that just might be what's going on. They may later plan on parking
their actual bombers on the painted ones. The hope might be that the painted
bombers get marked as do not hit targets. So if they put their real bomber on top
of the painted bomber, it may not be hit due to just not being targeted because it was
flagged as something to avoid.
I don't think that would actually be super effective, especially given the apparent angle
that some of the stuff has come in at when it was coming at the bombers, but I think
that might be the move. I find it hard to believe that their imagery is that far
behind. I mean, even with everything else going on, I find that hard to believe. I
think they plan on hiding their aircraft in the open on top of the painted
targets on top of the painted aircraft in hopes that in hopes that they get
missed. I think that's the move because they they can't expect this to work in
2023. Again there was a point in time when this would have been super
effective but those days are long since past and I find it hard to
believe that they don't know that. I think they're trying to outsmart the
the mission planners. But we'll have to wait and see and we'll have to wait and
see if Ukraine falls for it. I'm fairly certain they won't. Anyway, it's just a
thought, y'all have a good day.
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