• Russian military deception, sometimes known as maskirovka (Russian: маскировка, lit. 'masking, disguise'), is a military doctrine developed from the start...
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    actively and energetically promoted maskirovka (the use of military camouflage and deception). Among the maskirovka measures he adopted to achieve tactical...
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  • 1980s, it is roughly based on the more pragmatic Soviet practices of maskirovka (which preceded the D&D conceptualization by decades) but it has a more...
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    taken out of service and scrapped by the Soviet Union as part of the Maskirovka I, in part to have the United States to do likewise with its own first-generation...
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    and August. The Red Army successfully used the Soviet deep battle and maskirovka (deception) strategies for the first time to a full extent, albeit with...
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    original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2013. "BBC Radio 4 – Analysis, Maskirovka: Deception Russian-Style". BBC. Archived from the original on 24 November...
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    operations, but the Lvov-Sandomierz operations. The campaign was conducted as Maskirovka. By concentrating in southern Poland and Ukraine, the Soviets drew German...
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    of the prevailing contemporary doctrine or structure. Grand strategy Maskirovka Military doctrine Military strategy Military tactics Naval strategy Principles...
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    and nature reserve in England Honeypots – Computer security mechanism Maskirovka – Russian military doctrine Mobile submarine simulator – American sonar...
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    Soviets' operation entailed elaborate denial and deception, known as "maskirovka". All the planning and preparation for transporting and deploying the...
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  • concluded that the battle was instead a successful example of Soviet maskirovka, meant to trick the Germans into believing the region continued to be...
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    types. The Soviet Union's Red Army created the comprehensive doctrine of Maskirovka for military deception, including the use of camouflage. For example,...
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    Ukrainian soldiers. Dummy round Dummy tank Military deception Paradummy Maskirovka Q-ship Quaker gun Rubber duck Victor Jones "Decoys". Archived from the...
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    bounty of 1,000 roubles for each destroyed tank. The Soviets employed maskirovka (military deception) to mask defensive positions and troop dispositions...
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  • from the impending operation, the Politburo embarks upon an elaborate maskirovka to disguise both their predicament and their intentions. The Soviets publicly...
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    but as had been the case throughout the campaign, the Red Army used maskirovka (deception) to disguise the timing and exact location of their intended...
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    but was worth the payoff when it was later used as part of the Soviet Maskirovka Strategy to trap the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad, Kursk, and the Summer Offensive...
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    first successful launch of a human into space on April 12, 1961. As a maskirovka measure the Soviet TASS news agency mentioned the cosmodrome under the...
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  • networks owned or funded by Russia, and a process of deception known as "maskirovka" ("camouflage" in Russian) to hide its operations. It does the same thing...
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  • operates at a higher level. A Soviet, and presumably Russian, term of art, maskirovka or "denial and deception", is much broader than the current Western doctrine...
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    is perhaps the earliest example of the Russian tactic of deception, or maskirovka, and it is taught as such at Russian military schools.[citation needed]...
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  • Third Battle of Kharkov had demonstrated the importance of diversion, or Maskirovka operations. Such diversions and deception techniques became a hallmark...
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    2003. Retrieved 2 October 2012. Smith, Charles L (Spring 1988). "Soviet Maskirovka". Airpower Journal. Starmer, Mike (2005). The Caunter Scheme: British...
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    implying that his seemingly desperate message was a deliberate act of maskirovka. One of them, the self-proclaimed "people's governor" of Donetsk Pavel...
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    Reconnaissance Base of the special forces units was in the spirit of the Soviet Maskirovka also widely applied by the Soviet Cold War allies and these were operational...
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  • of the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv, WdH "has simply been a maskirovka, a deception that has allowed German corporations to maintain ties with...
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    enemy aerial reconnaissance which might have uncovered the offensive's maskirovka measures. The offensive lasted from 10 June to 9 August 1944. Narva Offensive...
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    was being maintained at Belogorsk in the Far East in the 1980s. This maskirovka division was then 'disbanded' later in the 1980s, causing comment within...
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    The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 March 2014. "BBC Radio 4 – Analysis, Maskirovka: Deception Russian-Style". BBC. Retrieved 11 April 2015. Liljas, Per (19...
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    both World War II and the Cold War. Soviet intelligence used the term maskirovka (Russian military deception) to refer to a combination of tactics including...
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