- Russia has a history of painting decoy military aircraft at its airbases around the country.
- Analysts say the tactic is an attempt to mislead Ukraine when it carries out long-range attacks.
- Both Moscow and Kyiv have used decoys to try and deceive the other side throughout the war.
It just needs to look like a jet from afar.
The idea is to make the surveyor have to zoom in and validate each decoy, each and every time they would check the area. Sometimes they would have a jet parked directly on top of a decoy in the hope that the surveyor wouldn’t zoom in and skip it thinking it’s still just a decoy.
It is more of a psychological practice than anything else and pretty sure it related to or is change blindness