DECEPTIVE MEASURES PISCO AIRFIELD, PERU (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: February 10, 1982
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DECEPTIVE MEASURES
PISCO IRFIELD: _PFRnn
1. (S/D) SIGNIFICANCE: USE OF DECEPTIVE MEASURES AT PERUVIAN
AIRFIELD.
2. (S/D) REMARKS: IMAGERY DISCLOSED THE USE OF 25X1
DERELICT DUMMY AIRCRAFT AND MOCKUP AIRCRAFT ALERT HARDSTANDS
AT PISCO AIRFIELD. AT THIS AIRFIELD, FIVE DERELICT/DUMMY
AIRCRAFT HAVE BEEN POSITIONED TO SIMULATE THE APPEARANCE
OF OPERATIONAL CANBERRA BOMBERS. THE DERELICT/DUMMY
AIRCRAFT WERE COVERED WITH CAMOUFLAGE NETTING AND WERE
PARKED ON FIVE MOCKUP ALERT HARDSTANDS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF
THE RUNWAY. THESE EFFORTS AT DECEPTION COULD REPRESENT A
NEW PERUVIAN INTEREST IN TECHNIQUES OF CAMOUFLAGE, CONCEALMENT
AND DECEPTION, WHICH, UNTIL THIS TIME, HAD CONSISTED
PRIMARILY OF CAMOUFLAGE-PAINTED AIRCRAFT AND VEHICLES.
(S/D) THE FIVE MOCKUP AIRCRAFT HARDSTANDS HAVE BEEN
CONSTRUCTED SINCE THE LAST CLEAR COVERAGE OF THIS FACILITY IN
OCTOBER 1981. THESE HARDSTANDS ARE ARRANGED IN TWO GROUPS, A
GROUP OF THREE AND A GROUP OF TWO, AND RESEMBLE THE
OPERATIONAL HARDSTANDS AT THIS AIRFIELD IN DIMENSION, DESIGN,
AND GENERAL APPEARANCE. HOWEVER, UNLIKE THE OPERATIONAL
HARDSTANDS, THE MOCKUP HARDSTANDS DO NOT HAVE AN ASSOCIATED
CREW-READY BUNKER; THEY ARE NOT SURFACED WITH CONCRETE SLABS
BUT ARE PROBABLY COVERED WITH CRUSHED ROCK OR CHALKED EARTH;
AND TIIE TAXIWAYS, WHICH LINK THE MOCKUP HARDSTANDS WITH THE
RUNWAY, ARE NOT SURFACED.
(S/D) PISCO AIRFIELD IS ON THE WESTERN CCAST OF PERU,
APPROXIMATELY 250 NM NORTHWEST OF THE PERU/CHILE BORDER, AND
SUPPORTS TWO CANBERRA LIGHT BOMBER SQUADRONS.
3. (S)
COORDINATES 13-44-30S 076-13-05W.
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