According to a US diploamat, the Russians have “claimed to have hit more HIMARS than we have even sent.”

Broadcasting News Corporation : The Russians haven’t missed — they’ve just been aiming at the wrong targets. The Ukrainian military has been building wooden decoys of the advanced, “game-changing” HIMARS rocket system to trick Russians into firing back, according to the Washington Post. “[The Russians] claimed to have hit more HIMARS than we have even sent,” one US diplomat told the paper. Russian media has claimed multiple successful strikes on the US-made artillery systems since they began to show up on the battlefield in June. In reality, however, it seems the Kremlin has been wasting precious precision ammunition on plywood.
In the first few weeks of fielding wooden decoys, the Russians fired at least 10 Kalibr cruise missiles at the fake rocket launchers, a senior Ukrainian official told the Washington Post. Those successful dupes led to an expansion of the program. Through the lens of a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle relaying targeting information to guided missile cruisers in the Black Sea, the wooden HIMARS is indistinguishable from the real thing.
“When the UAVs see the battery, it’s like a VIP target,” the official said. In addition to keeping Ukraine’s real HIMARS systems safe, the decoy ploy has another advantage — it wastes Russian ammunition. Beset by global sanctions and entangled in a longer war than it expected, Russia is running low on precision guided ammunition, according to Western analysts. And as Rob Lee, a military analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told the Washington Post, “A Kalibr missile launched at a fake HIMARS target in a field is a missile that can’t be used against a Ukrainian city.” NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.