New anti-drone protection system spotted in Russia on a bunch of aircraft. If these look like rubber tires, don't let that fool you, they are tires. Yea anon, they are putting rubber tires on planes to stop drones.
Cope tire to stop drones
New anti-drone protection system spotted in Russia on a bunch of aircraft. If these look like rubber tires, don't let that fool you, they are tires. Yea anon, they are putting rubber tires on planes to stop drones.
personally I don't think they are as nice looking as cope cages.
but... tyres are flammable...
I mean so I wood anon
barely if its green wood
But burning tires is bad for the environment. And HATO marvel super solders won't commit acts of pollution.
kys chud
>but... tyres are flammable...
Shut the fuck up. You are clearly not familiar with tires or aircraft so why do you have an opinion.
The tires are a stupid idea being heavy and not a great idea to drag over aircraft sheet metal, but anything capable of igniting them would as or more quickly wreck the surfaces (aircraft are thin, delicate things) beneath.
Please tell me how burning tires that already fucked up the surface of the wing are preventing bigger damage from whatever ignited the tires.
they're relying on fucking cartoon physics of bombs just bouncing off the tires
>boot up space engineers
>cover ship in tires
>mfw there's no more collision damage
i know they have hangars built to withstand nukes everywhere, why is this happening?
They lost the keys.
>i know they have hangars built to withstand nukes everywhere, why is this happening?
No, you don't know any such thing. You ASSUMED that because you're twelve. Strategic aircraft are meant to be launched in a nuclear exchange on the quite reasonable assumption their base will not exist for long.
The US didn't hangar SAC in nuke proof shelters for the same reasons. Instead SAC practiced mass launches like the glorious "elephant walks" still done today.
schitzo retard
>No, you don't know any such thing. You ASSUMED that because you're twelve.
So you're saying a 12 year old would've made better decisions to defend these air assets? Ok. Lmao
>Instead SAC practiced mass launches like the glorious "elephant walks" still done today.
The strategic bombers were either in the air or in hangars being repaired.
Get your shit together when you insult other people.
I agree anons. It's REALLY hard to understand WHY do they do all that and WHAT is even their motivation. It's totally NOT something among the following the lines...right guys..?
>get asked to better protect all the aircrafts
>get allocated for this project a gazillion of rubles
>the deadline is short and failure to reach means you will be sent to the frontline
>idea.jpg
>use all the stored tires in our military bases to "enhance the protection" by layering them on top of each frame
>delegate the job to all available conscripts
>report the higher-ups that the job's done
>"—Great job, cumrade anon! We delegate your report further up the chain to satisfy our leadership!"
>move all the rubles right into your pockets
>leave russia
>???
anon, those things were built by the soviets back in the 50's when they assumed there would be a nuclear exchange followed by ww3 any day now. They already have them in spades.
only a small amount were properly maintained instead of just being dumped out in the open somewhere getting fucked by weather and shit
What's even weirder is the lack of propellers and even engines on some of the sleepy planes.
could be decoys
I hate to break it to you, but planes that are being maintained (doubtful) or cannibalized for parts are not considered "decoys".
Soooo, do they spend time kicking out the tires or they just take off and let them fall on their own?
How many levels of cope are we at right now?
>tactically abandoned
Okay, have to give it to this zigger, he actually made me laugh instead of just eliciting another eyeroll.
This is just Berlin 1944 level. Frontbegradigung.
Is Robotnicville really just 8 bombed out hovels? To be honest I don't blame them for leaving that, why hold it.
Those aren't tires it's special anti-HATO drone paint!
woooow
how does painting tires on the roof stop drones anon?
Supposedly it's to camo them so AI algos can't discern them on SAR sat footage.
Which means what this actually achieves is forcing a couple analysts in Langley to work overtime until they adjust the algorythm.
This makes no sense. It's not like they need an AI to scan millions of images from all across russia. They know where the air base is. A human can glance over the four or five images from that base.
>19th century memes
i like how innocent those often times were, just silly little phrases that eventualyl reached the masses and then got branded as 9fag normieshit by anons
So the only response Russia has to Estonia, a country with less people than most big cities, bombing their stuff is to… paint their planes in hopes they don’t get spotted?
That would unironically be way more pathetic than just putting tires on your planes.
Bestonia is bombing moscuvia as we speak, lel.
>It's photoshopped but also it's actually ingenious camo paint
This somehow makes all sense in their head. Quite fascinating tbh.
HA! take that westoids! you mock us for being a cargo cult but we in fact understand science. always a step ahead
We know why they have those stripes, and it's because they're harder to pick out in a crowd of zebra so lions and other predators can't pick on just one to tire out for a meal from the herd.
No. Apparently it's also a defense against horseflies, which are confused by their colour pattern for some reason, probably fucks with their composite eyes or something
>engines removed
That's 12 tonnes missing from this giant kite which must be countered somehow. Tires are fine too.
Explanation is that this breaks up the infrared signature of the planes so weapons that use image recognition for final guidance won't be able to match. This will of course work until the next satellite pass when they will have new imagery to load into the weapons.
That is not how image recognition works. Just because some shitty AI that was cobbled together by a basement welling NEET gets put off by simple changes doesn't mean that the stuff that enabled smart amunitions of the last 50 years to find their targets have the same problem.
Finding a plane, especially one with such a unique outline, doesn't need a very complex algorithm. I would be surprised if the internal resolution would even be high enough to discern the tires as a foreign mass.
To give you an example: I've had the pleasure to witness some sciency stuff in which eye tracking was done with two cameras that had 625 pixels each. That's a resolution of 25x25 pixels. And they condensed that image down to 25 pixels total, crushed some numbers on a microcontroller that had less computing power than an Arduino and claimed a better detection of where the person was looking at than any contemporary system.
Computer vision is not a new field in computer science and most of it was (and is) done without the current hot thing that AI is.
That would be an actual use for an AI - finding differences in the landscape and categorizing them so a human can look at the interesting spots and not some minor (illegal) logging or a landslide.
Haven't you heard, zigger? Your own officials admitted that you "tactically abandoned" Robotyne.
you should tell your handlers to update your script
Robotnik has been tactically abandoned (probably as a gesture of goodwill)
On theory is those are honeypot decoys. Pls hit me I am ao protected with those useless tires. Here's a spot we've missed. Woops. Haha.
*one
not a day goes by without Ruzzians being a complete and utter embarrassment
is it me or are all the prop blades on that aircraft missing?
I'm an estonian moderate and I say we should bomb Russia for real.
>even impoverished arab shitholes have aircraft shelters
>Russia can't protect irreplacable strategic assets, nevermind frontline combat aircraft
Well to be fair the shelters didn't work, either.
I mean the tires appear utterly pointless, the hardened shlters worked against HE bombs and fragmentation at least in theory.
What is the idea behind the tires? The drone bounces off? The tires catch some of the splinters?
Tires are made of rubber.
From the old parable, "I am rubber, you are glue, enemy drones bounce of me and stick to you!"
. . .that might maybe, just maybe, cause an FPV racing drone with an RPG-7 warhead strapped on to not explode.
If it hits at an unfortunate angle. If it doesn't have a wire contact fuze.
If it was FPV drones attacking those air bases.
Or are these just old airframes set up as decoys?
They would theoretically provide some shelter from cheap GPS guided sneed drones, Bunker penetrators cost a lot of money.
I highly doubt this is to protect from drones and this is just spiraling into another "le cope cage" scenario where the actual purpose is now unimportant in favour of memes.
It's to try confuse westoid AI search algorithms that scan through the sat footage, not realising the AI flags changing oddities too kek
Pattern recogition isn't AI, though that is what we use it for most nowadays, but yeah close enough.
It’s hilarious because there’s a limited number of airfields. They can just tell a depressed E-4 to fucking eyeball it
If it is meant to protect from drones, then certainly not in a visual range, but to mess up radar signature during night raids.
Given how massive the airframe is I doubt it would affect much outside of specific angles. Also I expect them to know where it's at before they conduct a raid given it's laughably visible in the day.
>No props
Still IDK what they are doing there. Could be adding ballast trying to stop it from upending, especially possible if the engines are removed. Needs tiedowns.
Why would you park a (potentially ballasted, i.e. difficult to move around) plane on a ruinway though?
I mean, just put it on any other part of your airbase that is NOT a runway, then you at least have a runway you can use.
its a strategic stockpile, yetmore evidence of superior russian logistics
why would they put tires on a plane without propellers and without the antistall system on the engines?
pretty sure this isnt a cope tire at all but more like added weight to keep the plane from being lifted and his its tail on the tarmac
Whats the best tool to set fire to tires?
Magnesium? Napalm? Phosphorus?
Cause Im pretty sure Ukies are rearming their drones as we speak, for more shits & giggles.
What great times we live in, never before was watching war so fucking funny.
>Be me.
>Full scale invasion starts, I turn on "OH FUCK" mode, shit just got real, I shit my pants because I'm Polish.
>1.5 year passes
>I no longer check war news out of fear, I check them for lulz, thinking every morning "I wonder what dumb shit did the Ziggers pull off today".
Honestly I think they're just using tyres to weigh the plane down while the engines and props are removed.
Stop something like this happening if there's a strong wind
>calculate exact weight of tires needed to replace engines
>drink the anti-freeze the engines don't need now
>pass out for a month
>winter arrives
>tires trap lots of snow and ice
>extra weight causes wings to fall off
>plane is ruined without ukies needing to drone it
How do they stop drones??
first airplane wear tires, second follows
when first airplane blows up, second puts on the tires
I assume the idea is to try to stop fragments from airbursting drones like this:
But even so, the idea of doing so by placing object with a big donut hole in the middle facing upwards is retarded too. Too lazy to cut them up I guess.
So... no idea.
I said this in the last thread and I'll say it again.
The Serbs stacked tires on top of their vehicles in order to prevent the thermal signature from being detected.
Metal is almost always hotter than its surroundings, so thermal viewers see it easily, and have been able to see it easily since the 90s.
While its possible the tires could catch some shrapnel, I believe that this is meant to obfuscate the thermal signature, because these drones are mostly striking vehicles at night time.
Imagine being the guy that had to haul tires onto that thing all day and the Ukie meme drone just hits one of the gaps anyway.
I just leave this here
Ukraine has it's ERA guys.
Apparently their Russian cousins have similar ideas, but with tyres.
kök
need to replace them with vatniks
i hate that my ukraine war folder is getting filled with more memes than actual war footage these days
likely to change soon with what's going on in the south
i heard about some breakthrough and ukies flooding the area with mechanized units but that was like a week ago or so. has anything substantial happened ever since?
they need to hurry the fuck up before the rain starts again and russians dig themselves even deeper into their own shit
if things keep going thier way there's going to be a huge hole cut through the russian defense lines, they already made it past the first line which had the majority of the russian mines
Saved
Is there literally any scenario where cope tires make since? Usually vatnik antics are at least conceptually valid when looking through 50 IQ googles. This on the other hand just seems like a waste of time and readiness.
It makes a tiny bit of a difference for SAR, at least for now.
Over the grand scheme of things it still doesn't make since. Painstakingly putting fucking tires on all your aircraft isn't going to make them invisible to all overhead reconnaissance.
>putting tires instead of painting circles
It’s fascinating that none of the westaboos in this thread can comprehend adapting and novel, cheap, elegant solutions to problems. This horrifically rigid way of thinking is detrimental to NATO (and just western thought in general)
Da, comrade. A "superpower" using Africa-tier solutions to military problems should be congratulated. Stupid wectoids just throw money, engineering and technology at such things. Smart Russians rake through garbage dumps to find solution, saving money. Money is invested in yachts and dachas.
How is it supposed to work again?
Mess with AI recognition or something? make it harder to land and detonate the charge?
The answer is, russia is simply retarded.
The amount of "it's to weigh down the planes" that's been showing up makes me believe that it's the newest cope story that was pushed to the shills and thirdies.
How much does an engine weigh, how many tires would I need to replace them, why are we seeing planed with their engines that have tires piled on top of them?