Probably, in some ways, great generals are similar to players. Especially in those games where you need to bluff. How many times, reading descriptions of battles and just battles of past wars, I was amazed at the brilliant foresight of the commanders, the ability to deceive the enemy, create the necessary reserve of forces, while completely convincing the enemy of the opposite. How many times did the enemy strike at false positions? How many units and formations he kept where a company or a battalion stood against him …
Many people remember the old Soviet film "Restless Economy". The first directorial work of the great Mikhail Zharov. A funny lyrical comedy about the life of a false airfield during the Great Patriotic War. An object, the main task of which is to divert enemy aircraft from a real airfield. If we consider the film from the point of view of the military, then you get an excellent training film for the same units. Almost everything is shown. From methods of organizing a false object to fighting enemy scouts.
And with what humor it is told about the Red Army soldier Ogurtsov! The dumb soldier who invented the system of movable planes. And it was this system that allowed the chief of the facility, Sergeant Major Semibaba, not to risk fighters to attract the attention of enemy aviation. When the planes began to "take off", there was no need to create an imitation of panic. His soldiers sat in the trenches and controlled the models.
The modern war, not the last one, but the one that is possible, will also be replete with such episodes. No one is surprised by inflatable rocket launchers anymore. No one is surprised by inflatable tanks and other armored vehicles. False objects are a necessary reality of war today. An increase in the power of weapons, the accuracy of striking, the presence of special shells, bombs, missiles leaves almost no chance of survival. Alas, there is no such armor that modern specialized ammunition could not penetrate.
The most powerful and dangerous weapons today are missiles. Missiles of any type. It is the missile strike that is most effective from the point of view of the destruction of enemy personnel and objects. This is due to the high accuracy of missile weapons and enormous destructive power. But besides this, missile weapons allow solving assigned tasks without direct contact with the enemy. What, you see, is really important today. The value of each fighter has increased many times over due to the need for a fairly long preparation. Modern weaponry requires a trained soldier.
For a long time we have considered missiles as very expensive weapons. At the same time, they somehow completely forgot that modern air defense and missile defense systems are not at all cheap. Some of these systems are quite comparable in cost to attack systems. Today, anyone, even a person far from rocket armament, will talk about the false warheads that attack missiles are equipped with.
This is a fairly effective system. But … Like any system, it has its drawbacks. And the most important drawback is the need for a real missile launch. And not one or two, but a series. The capabilities of modern missile defense systems are quite large. This means that these false objects are very far from the "object" of Sergeant Major Semibaba. By the way, this also applies to the use of aviation.
This was well understood by engineers and designers from the Radioelectronic Technologies concern. Let me remind you that the concern, created in 2009, has already "presented" us with the Lever-AV complex, electronic warfare systems of the Khibiny family (for SU aircraft), ground-based complexes of the Krasukha and Moskva families, multifunctional complexes Rtut-BM " etc. And the avionics of most of the leading aircraft models (PAK FA, Su-35S, Yak-130, MiG-29K / cube, Il-476, Tu-204SM) and helicopters (Ka-52 "Alligator", Mi-171A2) was created in the same place …
And they not only understood, but also began to solve the problem in a completely different way. Why launch expensive and complex ballistic missiles? Why do divisions and armies need airstrikes? There must be another way …
And to the honor of the employees of the concern, this path was found. If the most complex systems control weapons, then … these systems must be deceived. But this is exactly what the electronic warfare systems are doing! Here is what Vladimir Mikheev, Advisor to the First Deputy General Director of KRET, said on June 10:
"There are so-called false aerodynamic targets. A special electronic warfare system is installed on them. It can represent a group of aircraft or cruise missiles in flight and simulate a false raid. Such work is at the final stage."
Moreover, according to Mikheev, several types of missiles, including cruise missiles, of various basing can be used for this. Even air-to-air class …
So, the new "restless economy of the foreman Semibaba" is on the way. Can you imagine a "phase shift" in enemy warning systems when they see hundreds of missiles and planes flying? And not only will they see, but they will also give the command to destroy … And they will give such a command without fail. Massive plaque …
We often talk about the fact that we have some kind of top secret weapon. What they just do not write in various media about this. And politicians, like the famous leader of one of the political parties, "throw logs into the fire." I will not dissuade readers in the presence of this weapon. Maybe there is, maybe not. But the fact that the new is the well-forgotten old, based only on modern technologies, is a fact. So it is worth revising Soviet films about the war. How many "restless farms" are there …
