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Business booms for Czech firm making inflatable decoy weapons as Ukraine war rages on / 33AM6X2
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A Czech company producing inflatable weapon decoys including Himars rocket launchers and Abrams tanks has seen business boom as the Russian invasion in Ukraine continues. While its officials have not openly said they are selling the decoys to Ukraine, citing military confidentiality, its output in the last 12 months has grown by 100 percent compared to the previous year. The Inflatech company makes over 30 models of weapons and sells them to all sorts of governments across the globe. The weapons designed to fool the enemy use an engine to inflate and to emanate heat to simulate a real piece of hardware. The company produces dozens of fake weapons every month. "If I don't have binoculars, looking from a distance of 150-200 metres, I won't be able to tell whether it's a real weapon of a decoy" says Vojtech Fresser, Inflatech's CEO, adding "if I force the enemy to destroy my product with something that's at least four times as expensive... then I win economically." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES