Entre los misiles empleados por Rusia en la invasi\u00f3n a Ucrania, est\u00e1n los ISKANDER \u2013M, un misil bal\u00edstico de corto alcance (SRBM), utilizado anteriormente en otros conflictos en Nagorno-Karabaj y en Georgia. Un aspecto tecnol\u00f3gico para destacar, es que estos sistemas disponen de novedosos se\u00f1uelos (Decoys) nunca antes vistos. Los se\u00f1uelos de este tipo, normalmente asociados a los grandes misiles bal\u00edsticos intercontinentales (ICBM), se est\u00e1n empleando ahora para batir blancos de precisi\u00f3n en el nivel t\u00e1ctico u operacional, lo que permitir\u00eda superar los sofisticados sistemas de defensa antimisiles del oponente. Fuerzas de Ucrania han recuperado alguno de estos se\u00f1uelos, los que est\u00e1n siendo analizados profusamente por especialistas, para develar sus capacidades y generar la correspondiente contramedida.<\/p>\n
Russian Ground Forces Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles, known in the West as\u00a0SS-26 Stone<\/a>, have been using an apparently previously unseen decoy, in an effort to spoof Ukrainian air defenses as\u00a0heavy fighting continues<\/a>\u00a0in the wake of the Russian invasion that began late last month. Penetration aids, or PENAIDs, of a broadly similar kind, have previously been\u00a0associated with much longer-range strategic<\/a>\u00a0missile systems, namely intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). However, these decoy munitions now point to Russian efforts to ensure that its short-range battlefield ballistic missiles, too, are better able to defeat increasingly sophisticated anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defenses. What\u2019s especially surprising is that Russia has now revealed this potentially significant aspect of the Iskander-M, one that it had previously managed to keep under wraps, at least from the general public, during the conflict in Ukraine where it isn\u2019t likely even needed.<\/p>\n Photos of the then-mysterious decoys, originally identified as submunitions of some kind, began to appear earlier this month. They were brought to\u00a0wider attention<\/a>\u00a0by Collective Awareness to Unexploded Ordnance, or CAT-UXO, an organization that brings together the explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) community in order to collate information and awareness. Roughly 16 inches long, dart-shaped, and with white bodies and orange tails, the purpose of these objects was at first unclear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n