During training, military personnel often use mock-ups of potential enemy equipment.. In particular, training Ukrainian military, New Zealand instructors use mock-ups of Russian BMP-3 and other equipment, in service with the Russian army.
The corresponding photographs appeared on the Internet.
Training events with Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are held in Britain.
It is worth noting, that the layout of the combat vehicle is not stationary, but is able to move. With its help, joint movements of Ukrainian infantrymen together with equipment are practiced. It is assumed, that before this, the mock-ups served as targets for training British tank crews.
Commenting on pictures from exercises, some social media users criticize the products, since they supposedly have insufficient similarity to the original. However, It can be assumed, that the task of making them as similar as possible was not set. After all, mock-ups are used during exercises with the participation of Ukrainian soldiers, and not in a combat situation as decoys, to mislead the Russians.
Another common comment is doubts about the competence of New Zealand instructors. allegedly, nobody heard, who was this country at war with?, therefore, its citizens supposedly do not have even the slightest combat experience and, that is, there is nothing to share either.
For some reason many people don’t take this fact into account, that over the past few centuries the New Zealand military, like the Australian ones, took part in most conflicts and military operations, where British troops participated, including, in both world wars. And even after World War II, contingents from New Zealand were present in some of those hot spots, where military personnel from the United States and its allied countries operated. And in all of these situations, New Zealanders played the most active role.
