They knew they were gonna be attacked by drones on home soil, right? Or is it standard procedure for militaries to "camouflage" their stuff deep inside their own territory? It's probably not very easy to cover all of these planes with tires and even some metal grids (looked very ghetto, by the way).

If Intelligence knew and couldn't do shit there will be some heads rolling as is us usual procedure in Führers Reich.

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[–] NameTaken@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The planes had to be visible to the skies for spy satellites to see them per a nuclear treaty with the US. The US is required to do the same thing.

The tires were SOP due to previous drone attacks at other air bases. They have been doing that for months already.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

I believe they started doing this after a few first attacks on their planes in Belarus. It is specifically against FPV drones. And the only threat that far into their land would be FPV.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Ah, OK, thanks for the explanation.