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The Soviets used to semi-randomly change ship pennant numbers and other identifying marks on their equipment to throw off NATO efforts to develop accurate stren
by vonmoltke 13y ago
The Soviets used to semi-randomly change ship pennant numbers and other identifying marks on their equipment to throw off NATO efforts to develop accurate strength estimates, orders of battle, and movement pictures.
- azernik 13y agoAs a less intentional version of this - at early stages of the 1973 war, Israeli forces in certain areas tended to consist of whatever scraps of forces arrived at the front first. This led Egyptian and Syrian intelligence to wildly overestimate Israeli force sizes, since they would sometimes see the identifying marks of multiple brigades when facing a very small force.