The 1,100 men in the unit were capable of simulating two full divisions-up to 30,000 men-with all the tanks and artillery that the real units might be expected to have. Military deception is as old as war itself, but the idea the Allied planners came up with represented something new: a mobile, self-contained deception unit capable of staging multimedia illusions on demand.
It is possible they were used in training, rather than for military deception.ĭummy tanks saw significantly more use during World War II. The tracks were non-functional so some were fitted with concealed wheels underneath and were towed from place to place by a pair of horses.ĭummy tanks, representing Allied models, were also found to have been constructed by the Germans, even though they deployed only a small number of real tanks. These were constructed from a wooden framework and covered with painted Hessian cloth. During both World Wars, Allied forces made use of dummy versions of the British heavy tanks. What use is an inflatable dummy tank in a very real war? A lot, if the enemy believes that it’s real. Real artillery shells were tossed around fake guns. Bulldozers were used to make tank tracks leading up to where the 93 lb (42 kg) inflatable dummies stood. Inflatable dummy tanks and trucks set up near the Rhine River in Germany.
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