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Iran allegedly painted helicopter decoy to waste costly IDF missiles (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was skeptical about the claim at first with all the wild theories going around in this conflict but that is 100% a decoy. Hitting a helicopter doesn't generate a perfectly circular smoking crater while the body and blades of the bird don't move or change structure.