The Russians deliberately put tires on their planes, as well as their designs, to try to deceive machine vision. One way or another, this created difficulties for some neural network models, according to Schuyler Moore, technical director of the United States Central Command. According to Moore, the Russians believed that the tires on the fuselage were meant to prevent machine vision from identifying the target. In particular, as a countermeasure, Russia also painted aircraft and then covered them with tires. The agency adds that it is not so much a visual image as a thermal signature of the t…