Weaponization of civilian assets like this should be prohibited. Feels so wrong. It is only the terrorists and terrorist-like regimes who use civilian camouflage for such purpose. What stops someone paranoid with an itchy trigger finger or even just bad intel or grainy surveillance photo to make a mistake and fire on a real civilian ship!
Sometimes I forget that westerners genuinely have lost their capacity for caution. Blowing up what you think is a warship over shoddy intel or grainy footage is onion levels of parady. But that’s straight up just how western militaries operate.
" … Deception is to place a launcher on a garbage truck, a Coca-Cola truck or a farm truck transporting wheat, for example." A number of Israeli companies specialize in camouflage; two are Ametrine Technologies and Fibrotex Technologies
This from a month ago, wherein the genocidaires brag about doing just this sort of thing (but worse).
Also Ukraine used civilian trucks to launch that one successful drone attack in Russia to the thunderous applause of the western media.
newsweek crying about it
Sometimes I forget that westerners genuinely have lost their capacity for caution. Blowing up what you think is a warship over shoddy intel or grainy footage is onion levels of parady. But that’s straight up just how western militaries operate.
https://hexbear.net/comment/6993928
This from a month ago, wherein the genocidaires brag about doing just this sort of thing (but worse).
Also Ukraine used civilian trucks to launch that one successful drone attack in Russia to the thunderous applause of the western media.