I heard that Russia bought a whole warehouse full of old Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs. They heard about the F-16s with the laser guided rockets. Gerasimov, who's well known for his youthful looks and air of intelligence, got them on the cheap from a reseller on Temu, who claimed they were all original "1950s!"

Well, you're probably wondering how in hell this bizarre stunt is going to defeat a Hydra 70 laser guided rocket? Don't underestimate the Russian High Command! The plan is that when a Shahed sees the rocket coming, well, it just throws the catalog at it! (There weren't any old phone books they could find.)

They're cheap. They're "effective" and they're written in ENGLISH! That's the real secret. They tested some old Soviet mail order catalogs - and they didn't work! The PsyOps guys figured out that because the F-16 lasers couldn't read Cyrillic, they just weren't getting scared. Thank god they were able to find a whole warehouse full of 1950s catalogs written in English!

True, it's not exactly Electronic Warfare, but don't mess with Vodka, I mean the Russian High Command. They were thinking "Shit! Shaheds don't have any meat to grind. We'll just have to do with catalogs."