the Russian military discovered a new use for old tires... disguising aircraft from drone AI. Covering aircraft with tires, as Russia has done during the Ukraine war, confuses image-matching computers that are looking for the plane

Schuyler Moore, the chief technology officer for US Central Command, said last week that this kind of unusual tactic can be used to confuse weapon systems that are looking for the plane.

if you put tires on top of the wings, all of a sudden, a lot of computer vision models have difficulty identifying that that's a plane," she said.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/covering-aircraft-with-tires-like-russia-confuses-weapons-us-military-2024-9