Putting car tires to protect Russian aircraft makes no sense – military expert

He said this on Espreso TV. 

"Car tires do not make it impossible to take satellite images. The Russians believe that the tires on airplanes will somehow help them. This is dynamic protection, like on tanks. It's called common countermeasures. If a drone carries a mixture of pyrotechnic incendiary agents, the tires catch fire and the fuselage of the aircraft is covered in flames. There is no logic in this. Because the only effective protection for aircraft at military airfields is special underground and above-ground hangars where aircraft must be driven," Kramarov explained.

According to the expert, most of the airfields in Russia are relocation and transportation airfields.

"The strategic airfields where enemy strikes were expected in the Soviet Union were mostly on the territory of Ukraine. Because the Russians believed that they did not need it. That's why we have such infrastructure at our airfields, while they don't," Kramarov emphasized.

• Explosions occurred at the airfield of the Russian city of Engels, Saratov region, on the night of December 26, 2022. The Russian forces reported three dead Russian servicemen. The next day, Air Force Command spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said that after the explosions at the airfield, the Russians redeployed a part of the aviation from Engels to Saratov region of the Russian Federation.

• Russian soldiers at the Engels airfield in the Saratov region put tires on Tu-95 bombers to protect them from drone attacks.