"Just one more tire bro"
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- Thread starter bd popeye
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Yeah, but anti air guns are not expensive. They are still in war they should be more prepared
but why tires? what kind of threat would tires protect from? strong wind?
Idk they still put them on their planes tho
The attack was pretty brilliant actually, they drove trucks with hidden FPV drones ontop and flew them via cellular + FPV, these bases are all far from Ukraine and they were prepared for incoming long range drones but not tiny FPV drones launched from just outside the fence. A jammer might have helped but that can be bypassed by AI targeting.
I'm actually pretty surprised this obvious attack vector doesn't happen more often, both miltary and terrorist. Anyone can buy FPV drones locally and fly them into military bases with homemade explosives, the only reason the one Chinese vloggers even got caught was because he flew a DJI Mavic that reports its own position. A simliar attack on any American CONUS base is not only doable its not even that hard, prevention really comes down to internal population monitoring to catch it at the planning stages, which Russia obviously failed to do.
The only downside is FPV drones don't have much explosives so most damage was caused by targeting fuel tanks, simply keeping aircrafts unfueled until before takeoff can mitgate a lot of the damage from this vector.
In either case this is an attack vector that's very accessable to everyone, including in the ME, so expect a lot of resources spent on defending against small point blank drone launches by everyone going forward.
plawolf
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That far from the front, they were expecting long range fixed wing UAVs that are targeted at GPS coordinates and lack terminal guidance.
Tires are idiotic, but I guess the thinking is that if an UAV hits on one, it might just be deflected. A ridiculously low probability defence, but better than nothing I guess.
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It looks like China has figured out a way to hamper F-35 production. This is of fundamental importance. To me, this rare earth magnet export ban is so important that I wouldn't give it up even for EUV lithography.