It is a very high quality mock-up, you can't tell the difference from 10 meters away. In general, such models of various equipment become another weapon against drones. For this purpose they should be very detailed and withstand more than one hit - so that they don't have to be replaced every day. Such models are already in use in Ukraine and are likely to become even more widespread, especially at some distance from the front. In the role of expensive targets - air defense, radars, SAU - they are of maximum use, because not only drones, but also missiles up to ballistic missiles are spent on them. I think we will soon see mass use of mockups by the Russian army as well.
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Well, we know they've historically been great at producing military hardware that is, uh, missing some features. (Look up the Soviet "parade fighter," among other examples all' the way up to apparently sending "troops" to invade Ukraine with BB/pellet guns(!?))
On the other paw, kinda seems like they don't actually have anything that's at 100% to begin with so who's gonna know the difference.
The whole of the Russian military is the mock up. Don't forget the Armata.
Idunno, surely the point of a mockup is to be seen, no? Where the hell is the T-14? Presumably there's at least one left somewhere that hasn't spontaneously combusted or something. Damn vapour-tank isn't even making a show of being scary; it's pure smoke and no mirrors.
...And as this Community shows daily, Russian equipment and smoke very much go together 🤣
The absence of the Armata T14.
As long as Ukrainian drones concentrate on tanks that are moving to the front, the danger of hitting decoys is low.
Reminds me of a story from WW2: The Germans had built an airfield with lots of planes - from wood, as a decoy. One day, a single allied bomber appeared and dropped one bomb in the middle of the airfield. The "bomb" was made of wood, too.
No reliable source for story.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/
Famously, they would sometimes repaint squadron numbers on Yak-38s (very roughly the Soviet analogue of the Harrier) so western observers thought they had far more in service than they actually did.