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FM 5-23 Field Decoy installations

FM 5-23

Field Decoy installations

Army · FM · Oct 1956 · 196 pages

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1. Purpose This manual provides a reference for officers at battalion level or lower who are responsible for planning and implementing visual deception phases of field operations and for training troops in the simulation of military activities and installations. 2. Scope This manual covers the general principles of visual deception including the planning, implementation, operation, and maintenance of decoy installations. It furnishes the visual characteristics which identify various military installations and activities. It discusses the various considerations, such as the efficiency of opposing intelligence, the weather, and the terrain, which affect the extent to which these identifying char- acteristics must be reproduced in the production of a successful decoy. The equipment, tools, and methods by which decoy installations may be created are cataloged and explained.

DesignationFM 5-23

EditionOct 1956

StatusSuperseded

Pages196

FunctionEngineering

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 11

TM 30-246Not in the Vault
TM 30-24GNot in the Vault
FM 5Not in the Vault