cm0002@lemmy.world to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-27 days agoUkraine releases new footage of daring AI strikes that crippled Putin’s bomber fleetwww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down13
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minus-squareBob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoAnother article I saw said that they are there for ‘protection’. Not sure how effective they would be.
minus-squareIphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 days agoIt’s supposed to make it more difficult for autonomous targeting systems to recognize the aircraft: https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms
minus-squarecotlovan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoThis stems from the times when Ukraine used Drones to drop shells/grenades on the planes close to the contact line. The tires are for the planes are what the cope cages were for armored vehicles.
minus-squarewe is doomed!@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoI thought it was a ghetto way of hoping a dropped grenade from a drone might bounce off.
Another article I saw said that they are there for ‘protection’. Not sure how effective they would be.
It’s supposed to make it more difficult for autonomous targeting systems to recognize the aircraft:
https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms
Worked real well.
This stems from the times when Ukraine used Drones to drop shells/grenades on the planes close to the contact line. The tires are for the planes are what the cope cages were for armored vehicles.
I thought it was a ghetto way of hoping a dropped grenade from a drone might bounce off.