After three months of grinding advances in the Western-backed operation, Kyiv has accelerated advances along its main line of attack.
For now, the Ukrainians must resupply front-line troops on foot or, at best, using motorcycles, all-terrain buggies or pickup trucks, rather than Western-supplied armored vehicles, which attract massive fire as soon as they appear on the battlefield.
Hmm. If that’s true, I wonder if it’s possible to put a Bradley-looking shell atop a remote-controlled pickup truck and drive it around the battlefield to draw fire off other things.
Maybe put some light armor over the engine compartment to help make it a bit more survivable.
Rig a Bradley for remote control, parade it at the front, and put shells in anything that shoots at it?
Worst case, the Russians learn not to shoot at Bradleys.
Rig a Bradley for remote control
The thing is that Ukraine doesn’t have a lot of them, they’re about $2M a pop, and presumably they’re shooting something at it that can destroy it.
Whereas an old pickup truck is a whole lot less.
My point is just that if there has to be an advance and one knows that any artillery in the area or whatnot is going to be focusing on whatever-it-is-that-looks-like-a-Bradley, then might as well put something relatively-cheap to draw fire off rather-more-expensive soldiers.
The footage I’ve seen from Orlan-10s, which I understand is what Russia uses for a lot of artillery spotting, doesn’t look all that clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS8uBrqrx2A
I’m not sure that it’d be all that easy to identify a decoy from footage like that.
Yes, on a more serious note than the remote Bradley, there’s a Czech company that makes inflatable decoy military weapons.
Apparantly they are part of the reasons Russia has “destroyed” far more himars than Ukraine have ever received.
