#Reality:

Apprentice: “I put new tires on the plane like you asked, boss!”

  • @[email protected]
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    389 months ago

    “Mr President, we have no armors to protect the planes against bombs’ fragmentation.”

    “Very well, let them have car tires.”

    ps: it must be effective against something.

    • Bernie Ecclestoned
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      359 months ago

      Supposedly it helps disguise the image from image targeting, I’d guess it is only useful until new images are added with tyres on

      • Narrrz
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        339 months ago

        wouldn’t it be more useful to break up its silouette, or something?

        Or even just cover it in a tarpaulin? surely they can manage to find enough material of some sort in all of russia to make a makeshift cover. It’s gotta be easier than car tyres.

        • Jay
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          9 months ago

          The only logic I can see with tires is it MAY help deflect/catch some shrapnel, or potentially cushion a dropped charge if hit from above. If its purpose was to mess with image targeting they could just paint shapes on them and not have to toss tires around all the time, or as you say toss some tarps on them.

          • @Aqarius
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            39 months ago

            Maybe mess up the fuse, like anti-RPG cages?

            • @[email protected]
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              49 months ago

              Anti RPG cages protect armoured vehicles. Planes are squishy. AA missiles explode in their general direction and bring them down with sprays of shrapnel.

              Improper painting can damage and ground an airplane. These tires don’t do squat IMO.

              • @Aqarius
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                29 months ago

                AA missiles, yes. I’m wondering about improvised drone grenades with annimpact fuse.

      • @Quasi
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        309 months ago

        I would assume he is being funny.

          • @Quasi
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            139 months ago

            True. For me it depends on how optimistic I’m feeling that day.

      • @EmpathicVagrant
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        149 months ago

        “Well, people always say they’re tired after a long flight so I assumed they were handed a tire as they disembarked.”

  • Zaros
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    149 months ago

    Oops, I almost missed the meme just looking at the picture.

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    Do they know of anything that burns better than burning tires? Because I don’t. I think you can actually make solid booster rockets out of tire rubber. Bags of dirt would have been better.

  • @uis
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    9 months ago

    Probably to confuse CV

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    29 months ago

    That’s not a plane! It has WAY too many wheels! Clearly, this is not the strike target you’re looking for.

  • @[email protected]
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    19 months ago

    This doesn’t look like tires to me, but a sticker. The tries would be falling off the side of the fuselage