Washington Post: Russians hit wooden HIMARS mock-ups with $6.5 million missiles

The Russian army strikes wooden HIMARS with expensive missiles. The Washington Post writes about it.

The Washington Post refers to the words of an unnamed Ukrainian official and an American diplomat.

HIMARS models are made of wood. For Russian drones relaying information about targets on cruise missile carriers in the Black Sea, they are no different from real missile launchers, a Washington Post official said.

Over the course of several weeks, the Russians hit at least 10 wooden mock-ups with Kalibr missiles, according to WP. After that, the Ukrainians began to make fake HIMARS even more stubbornly.

Strikes against dummy targets can partly explain that the Russians reported destroying more HIMARS than Ukraine received at all, the American diplomat said.

The use of decoys is one of many tactics the Ukrainian Armed Forces are using to fight back against a larger and better equipped enemy, wrote the Washington Post.