Downed Russian Fighters Said to Be Found With Basic GPS 'Taped To the Dashboards'

An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider:

Wrecked Russian fighter jets are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers 'taped to the dashboards' in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK's defense secretary, Ben Wallace, said.... '[W]hilst Russia has large amounts of artillery and armor that they like parading, they are unable to leverage them for combined arms maneuver and just resort to mass indiscriminate barrages,' he added....

Last month, Ukrainian troops paraded what they said was a Russian drone that had been covered in duct tape and fitted with a generic plastic bottle top for a fuel cap. In March, Ukrainian troops found what appeared to be Russian army bandages dating to 1978 discarded on a battlefield. In his Monday speech, Wallace said Russian vehicles 'are frequently found with 1980s paper maps of Ukraine in them' and that soldiers were using 'pine logs as makeshift protection on logistical trucks' and attaching 'overhead 'cope cages' to their tanks.'

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