The Cruel British Trick That Made Elite German Snipers Abandon Their Posts

Описание: Britain was losing the sniper war. Badly. German marksmen were picking off soldiers with near-total impunity — 200 to 300 casualties a day from invisible rifles no one could locate. So Britain did something nobody expected. They called in the artists.
A painted papier-mâché face. Glass eyes. A steel helmet. Raised slowly above the parapet like a man daring to look. Elite German snipers — some of the most dangerous marksmen in the world — shot at it without hesitation. And in doing so, revealed exactly where they were hiding.
The dummy head programme didn't just find snipers. It got inside their heads. It made the best marksmen in the German Army doubt their own eyes, question their own instincts, and in some documented cases, abandon their posts entirely rather than risk firing at a target they could no longer trust to be real.
This is the story of how Britain weaponised art, patience, and human instinct to turn the tide of one of the most psychologically brutal battles of the First World War. A battle fought in inches. In silence. With painted faces and steel plates and the cold mathematics of a bullet hole.
No famous general ordered it. No massive factory built it. Just artists, gamekeepers, and patient men in muddy trenches — outsmarting the finest snipers in the world with nothing more than a convincing face.

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