History 05/03/20 As the Red Army used plywood tanks at Kursk
Any war from ancient times to the present day is always largely the ability to enter the enemy in confusion about its true intentions. Most often for these purposes use fake fortifications, as well as a simulated movement of military units and equipment. During the Second world war for these purposes has been popular the use of plywood and inflatable tanks, and on both sides of the front line.
the Echo of the First World war
As is known, the use of tanks during the First world war was minimal, but extremely effective. The soldiers at the sight of the mechanical monsters, crawling across the battlefield, covering panic. In this regard, almost all the major powers involved in the war were forced to build plywood tanks for training infantry combat them and to overcome fear of the soldiers. Subsequently, in the period between the two world wars, in Europe and the Soviet Union began mass creation of the mechanized troops. Tanks for the soldiers ceased to be something terrible, and need to, plywood layouts, disappeared by itself. However, the soldiers the number of the backward technically countries continued to be treated with caution to the tanks and other self-propelled equipment. In particular, Japanese soldiers involved in the fighting at lake Khasan, their commanders reported that Soviet tanks are plywood, and punch them in simple bullets. Through this statement, the Japanese relentlessly fired at the Russian tanks with their rifles, causing them no harm, but incurring significant losses in manpower. However, as history has shown, plywood tanks, previously used for training soldiers, scrap it was premature. With the outbreak of the Second world war, the need for them has not only returned, but increased significantly. Fake plywood and even inflatable tanks were used to deceive the enemy as to the real amount.TBA troops in one direction or another fighting. When we had to organize a fake maneuver, without the fake equipment was simply not enough.
Plywood machinery
the First time after the outbreak of the Second world war plywood models of tanks and other military equipment, as previously used for training infantry, artillery and grenadiers. However, it soon became clear that much more efficient to use a fake technique to create the illusion of being mechanized military units in those places where they actually were not. With this objective, the USSR had built a special factory that churned thousands of plywood and inflatable tanks and planes. Along with this technology in a plywood “arms” immediately went to the front, to carry out “combat missions”. In particular, encyclopedic dictionaries, devoted to the great Patriotic war, claim that it is only Kursk “fought” 800 200 models of tanks and inflatable aircraft. Moreover, this fake technique is perfectly executed his very real combat mission to deceive the enemy. For service units of fake tanks and inflatable aircraft in the Soviet Union was created the 23rd detachment of special purpose. However, it was not the elite spetsnaz troops and 1,100 artists, illustrators and designers. They had to organize the simulation of a large number of military equipment in place on the front line. This unit received at least 20 major operations during which they created a fake fortifications, headquarters, airfields, the simulated movement of armored units. Formulation of such “performances” were so accurate that the Germans always took them at face value.
Split the allied forces
During the Normandy landings the Americans and British, not inventing nothing new, used the same tactics as Soviet troops. To bring down the Nazis baffled as to the true direction of the movement of his troops, soussiKi organized a large-scale presentation with a fake plywood tanks. Plywood casts were mounted on trucks and heavy trucks. Running at full volume speakers provide the necessary sound. The whole unit false tank formations, disguised as “Sherman” created the illusion of the movement of the allied forces, while real tanks and planes struck at the enemy in the most unexpected places. It should be noted that despite the decades since the Second world war, the use of fake tanks and other military equipment not only gone, but on the contrary gaining momentum. Today, when satellites can see any piece of Land, creating an artificial military units is as relevant as ever.
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