Defending a wormhole junction/terminus.

Montrose Toast wrote:

kzt wrote:Pretty much. With whatever cheap stuff you need to make it look to a long-range sensor like a missile pod.

Going to make them inflatable while you are at it?
I would be surprised if decoys were not already in standard use.
Very old idea - like proping up bodies on the fort's wall to give the impression it is still defended...

Inflatable decoys...

Read the Star Trek book "How Much For Just The Planet?".

I love the Klingon's reaction to the partially inflated Warbird decoy.

"It's not ours, it's too... floppy"

Michael Everett wrote:Going to make them inflatable while you are at it?
I would be surprised if decoys were not already in standard use.
Very old idea - like proping up bodies on the fort's wall to give the impression it is still defended...

Inflatable decoys...

Read the Star Trek book "How Much For Just The Planet?".

I love the Klingon's reaction to the partially inflated Warbird decoy.

"It's not ours, it's too... floppy"[/quote]

The US/UK had inflatable decoys for tanks, half tracks, airplanes, etc., that were used to fool the Germans, both before Overlord and during the European land campaign. Patton's assignment for Overlord was to simulate an Army headquarters threatening the expected landing near Calais. I believe the Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe had similar capabilities. And Lend/Lease would have sent US decoys to the Soviets.

Fox2! wrote:

Michael Everett wrote:Going to make them inflatable while you are at it?
I would be surprised if decoys were not already in standard use.
Very old idea - like proping up bodies on the fort's wall to give the impression it is still defended...

Inflatable decoys...

Read the Star Trek book "How Much For Just The Planet?".

I love the Klingon's reaction to the partially inflated Warbird decoy.

"It's not ours, it's too... floppy"

The US/UK had inflatable decoys for tanks, half tracks, airplanes, etc., that were used to fool the Germans, both before Overlord and during the European land campaign. Patton's assignment for Overlord was to simulate an Army headquarters threatening the expected landing near Calais. I believe the Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe had similar capabilities. And Lend/Lease would have sent US decoys to the Soviets.[/quote]
Ah yes, The First United States Army Group(FUSAG) And the British Fourth Army Better known as Operation Fortitude

What helped was that the Germans could not believe we would actually sideline some one as skilled as Patton for something they saw as trivial such as slapping an enlisted man.