Even thermal trace leaves: Ukrainian techniques hunt for value Russian "lanceotes"

The team creates models of tanks, self-propelled artillery installations, missile and aircraft complexes, etc. "They look the same as the real ones. It will get into the lens of the Russian drone such a false-purpose, and the enemy concentrates attention and resources on its destruction-it will be died from guns, to direct drones on it. And in the meantime, real military equipment and Her crews will go unnoticed by the Russians.

Oleg Kostyukov noted that if in the dark, such a model gets into the field of view of the Russian night drone, then his thermal imaging chamber will see in the infrared range a large object that radiates heat - as a real tank or self -propelled artillery installation. He told how the scheme with layouts works. According to him, the crew of a self -propelled artillery installation moves to perform a combat mission and takes such a layout.

As long as one group of the military exhibit coordinates, others collect the layout and then mask it a little. Then they shoot and quickly leave the place, as the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are running a counter -battery. The enemy calculates where they shot and directs the drone there. He captures the shooting sleeves, traces of caterpillars and masked false-Sau. The command orders to hit it with a drone "Lancet". The cost of such UAV is $ 20-30 thousand.

While the cost of the layout he affected is $ 3,000. "However, the main thing is not even the money, but that the false-goal distracted the enemy's attention from the real SAU, from her crew, saved the lives of defenders," says Oleg Kostyukov. He says that the military equipment of the army is not enough, so he has the idea to create such production.

"Also, deceive the enemy an inflatable layout (costs about $ 18,000) can only be from afar - if the drone with a normal camcorder is flying, it is not difficult to see that the tank or, say, SAU is not real. . So we decided to try to make layouts of another type for much less money. He said that the layouts were initially made of plate pipes, but they were light and began to fall apart from the wind, then the plastic was replaced with metal. Finished layout soldiers can collect in 5 minutes.

After that, it is worn on a sheet of tneated synthetic fabric - and the layout is ready for use. "The metal frame weighs about 200 kilograms. It is not a lot. And the size of the layouts is considerable (about three by seven meters). Therefore, with a strong wind, the layouts can even blow. So we have to attach them to the ground. We make 20 to 30 to 30 layouts per month. We The layouts of seven types of military equipment were created.

He said that people who live in different corners of the country - from Kharkiv to Chernivtsi are involved in the project and so far they have not been going in one place. We will remind that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on August 8 joyfully announced that they destroyed the German IRIS-T PPO complex near the border of Kursk region. However, he turned out to be a model. Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian volunteers are creatively approaching the creation of layouts.