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New Airforce Decoy

From Wired.com:

The Miniature Air-Launched Decoy, or “MALD,” is a cross between a cruise missile and an aerial drone, able to distract or confuse enemy air defenses to protect attacking U.S. jets. It was already on its way to becoming one of America’s most important unsung weapons when this happened: MALD-maker Raytheon figured out a way to “deliver hundreds of MALDs during a single combat sortie,” company vice president Harry Schulte announced in a recent statement.

 

It is good to see the military continue to think about different methods of attack other than stealth and “smart” bombs.

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Military Inflation: Russia’s inventive way to deceive the enemy – inflatable weapons.

The inflatables are stitched together at a former hot-air balloon factory

“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.

The decoys are a hundred times cheaper than the real thing, which means Moscow will save a lot of money by blowing up its own weapons.”

Video here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11511886

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