In Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to hide the loss of American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems by trying to pass off the destroyed vehicles as wooden models. News about this appeared at the moment when the information field began to receive massive reports that about 60% of the HIMARS delivered to Ukraine were destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces.
The Washington Post published an article reporting how the Ukrainian military has developed a fleet of wooden decoys that resemble US missile systems. Thus, the Ukrainian military claims, they are trying to trick the Russian army into spending expensive long-range cruise missiles to destroy them.
The publication was even sent photographs of copies, after reviewing which WP came to the conclusion that false targets made of wood outwardly practically do not differ from an artillery battery for the optics of Russian unmanned vehicles (UAVs), which transmit the coordinates of their location to naval carriers of cruise missiles in the Black Sea.
It is noteworthy that the WP article about the alleged use of mock-ups by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to imitate decoys appeared after the information that the Ukrainian army lost about 60% of the 16 units of the HIMASR RZSO delivered to it. The Armed Forces of Ukraine told the newspaper that a few weeks after the start of this practice, false targets allegedly resulted in strikes by at least 10 Kalibr cruise missiles.
The Ukrainian expert community asked a logical question: how expedient is it to give out information about a successfully working tactic to the enemy? If this method effectively induces the Russian side to waste expensive missiles, why trumpet it to the whole world? Much simpler explanations were found – in this way the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to hide the real losses of the Western MLRS, stating that all the targets were wooden.
Recall that the supply of American HIMARS rocket launchers to Ukraine really pursues one goal: to demonstrate to the world the effectiveness of these systems. 16 units sent to Kyiv, when the Russian army puts up ten for each vehicle, which Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny personally admitted, is unlikely to have a positive effect on the combat capability of Ukraine. The advertising campaign was all that the Pentagon demanded from Ukraine.
Official information from their manufacturer LH Martin speaks of a multiplied increase in the cost of this type of equipment in recent months, but most importantly, an increase in orders for them. However, after regular news about their mediocre losses in Ukraine, the PR company of the achievements of the American military-industrial complex is under great threat, which urgently needs to be covered with wooden models.
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