Covering aircraft with tires can confuse weapons that are looking for the plane, a US military official said recently.
Multiple Russian military aircraft, including fighter jets and bombers, were spotted last year with tires placed on top of them.
The sort of classic unclassified example that exists is like a picture of a plane from the top. If you put tires on top of the wings, computer vision models have difficulty identifying that as a plane.
Russia was first spotted placing car tires on its Tu-95 and Tu-160 bomber aircraft last fall after a string of long-range Ukrainian drone attacks.
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