I know we’re not one to talk in the US here because we spend more money on our military than practically every other country in the world combined, while we could be you know, helping people, but even I have to say something about this.

Russia doesn’t have the military funds we do, but they don’t want to look week. The solution? A blow-up army.

They look just like real ones: they are easy to transport and quick to deploy.You name it, the Russian army is blowing it up: from pretend tanks to entire radar stations. The decoys are a hundred times cheaper than the real thing, which means Moscow will save a lot of money by blowing up its own weapons.

On the edge of Moscow, two men carry a black duffle bag into a field, then drop it on the ground. When they open the bag, they take out a large sheet of plastic. It looks like a tent or a tarpaulin. In fact, it’s the Russian army’s latest strategic weapon. It doesn’t need ammunition – just air. On goes the pump, in goes the air and the plastic sheet begins to rise and take shape.

A turret appears, then out pops a long plastic gun barrel. This is an inflatable Russian tank.

When you think about it, it’s actually kind of genius because as though we can see the above tank should be a children’s birthday party, our advance satellites probably can’t tell the difference, and who wants to be the general who didn’t attack a group of tanks because “they were probably balloons”?