Engineers are creating decoys which will be used to mask attacks using devastating thermobaric warheads, journalists found.

Russian forces have started deploying deadly thermobaric drones alongside numerous decoy UAVs, which are not armed with explosives, in their large-scale drone attacks against Ukraine. Source: Associated Press (AP) Details: A factory in Russia's Alabuga special economic zone recently began producing thermobaric drones along with decoys,

The Russians are using decoy drones designed to wear out Ukrainian air defenses, along with deadly thermobaric attack UAVs. — Ukrinform.

A hi-tech factory has created a new way to attack Ukraine: a small number of highly destructive thermobaric drones surrounded by swarms of decoys. View on euronews

Russia is using decoy drones to confuse Ukrainian defenses, while also introducing thermobaric drones that pose severe risks. The Alabuga plant in Russia is key to drone production. These tactics are saving costs for Russia and creating uncertainty in Ukrainian airspace,

Over the course of October 2024, Russia launched more than 2,000 drones against Ukraine, with Ukrainian intelligence estimating that about half of these drones were decoys or fake targets that Russia used to distract and overwhelm Ukrainian air defences.

Engineers in Russia are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones that are designed to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a new deadly weapon, an Associated Press investigation has found. The plan is dubbed Operation False Target. (AP Video: Alex Babenko, Vasilisa Stepanenko & Hanna Arhirova)

A high-tech factory in central Russia has created a new, deadly force to attack Ukraine: A small number of highly destructive thermobaric drones surrounded by huge swarms of cheap foam decoys

Russian air defence units intercepted a series of Ukrainian drones in several Russian regions, officials said, many of them in Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops launched a major incursion in August.