They can throw you off

Usage examples of decoys.

However effective their decoys might be, they were much slower to adapt their emissions than Manticoran decoys would have been.

Dozens of large clearing ships went straight for the mines and opened their pointed noses, spewing rocky decoys into the shell.

The brilliant circles of twenty propellant tails flashed past, then multiplied into many times that number as the decoys deployed.

Bison Decoys sometimes were, but would live to do what the spirits had selected him to do.