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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.
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/