#Reality:

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

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Goodbye fuel economy and aerodynamics.

    Those tires aren’t light.

  • imgprojts@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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.

  • Raisin8659@monyet.cc
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    1 year 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.

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        1 year 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@lemmy.ca
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          1 year 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.

  • Batman@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

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