cm0002@lemmy.world to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-23 days agoUkraine releases new footage of daring AI strikes that crippled Putin’s bomber fleetwww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down13
arrow-up1155arrow-down1external-linkUkraine releases new footage of daring AI strikes that crippled Putin’s bomber fleetwww.politico.eucm0002@lemmy.world to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-23 days agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squarerecursivepickle@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days agoWould anyone know what the tyres are doing on top of those planes in the footage?
minus-squarecolonelp4nic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 days agoThe idea is to disrupt the visual (and possibly thermal) signature to make automated targeting less effective
minus-squareBob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoAnother article I saw said that they are there for ‘protection’. Not sure how effective they would be.
minus-squarecotlovan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day 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-squareIphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 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-squarewe is doomed!@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI thought it was a ghetto way of hoping a dropped grenade from a drone might bounce off.
Would anyone know what the tyres are doing on top of those planes in the footage?
Coping
The idea is to disrupt the visual (and possibly thermal) signature to make automated targeting less effective
Another article I saw said that they are there for ‘protection’. Not sure how effective they would be.
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.
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.
I thought it was a ghetto way of hoping a dropped grenade from a drone might bounce off.