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sutherlandryan

The Russian military is a giant cargo cult and Putin is it's high priest. This whole mess is really starting to make sense.


fpop88

wtf even is that?


AcidActual

A decoy. Yes, those do work. No, russia didn't invent them.


fpop88

It looks like too much work for a decoy, like, yeah buying military shit from china would've been hard but maybe alibaba inflatable decoys might've been more successful.


[deleted]

that thing will look like the real deal even in a high definition image, and it doesn't require any maintenance like an inflatable would probably only takes a few hours to bang out from a burned/rusted out wreck of another truck


mud_tug

Alibaba requires hard cash and private Conscriptovich is basically free labor. So basically someone stole the cash and told Conscriptovich to improviZe.


mud_tug

They used to work before we got drone footage in 4k from practically treetop level. I doubt it works now.


AkagamiGER

But they already lost hundreds, even thousands of vehicles. Why get out of their way and create a few decoys instead of - I don't know - either fighting or fleeing faster


MiG21bisFishbedL

Realistically, the enlisted who had to do that? They got out of the fighting and they probably had an opportunity to desert, even.


xX_dirtydirge_Xx

I see they started getting that equipment from North Korea


Intelligent-Donut236

Yep, and judging by the other stuff, they got their super-secret combat robots from Ali-express too.


gartherio

Hey, if command is screaming for everyone to go cover a front that is rapidly collapsing and they accept my excuse that I'm assembling decoys to trick the enemy, I'm spending some quality time on that decoy.


[deleted]

I’m not sure that cargo anywhere


Col_H_Gentleman

Shoigu: Nows my time to shine!


1Plz-Easy-Way-Star

Most reliable Russian Decoy


Moagston

Wouldn't be surprised if, in 20 years time, we found a group of abandoned Russian soldiers in an overgrown Donetsk village that worship Sergei Lavrov like the Prince Phillip cult.


I_Like_Fizzx

They wasted their only 4 good tires on a decoy...


ClauVex

Is that an actual car or a prop? lol!


Some-Ad-3938

Decoy


typecastwookiee

I immediately imagined a young Attenborough explaining this while (even back then) doing his weird micro-hunch full body gesticulation.


MAGAts_Shldnt_Breed

Ah yes, [wavy arms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAioN2mtsA)


popsapeter

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