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> The tires on the planes thing is very clear to anyone who served in russian/soviet army.

Why is this, for the rest of us?



To imitate.

There was order from the higher ups: protect the planes. There was no specific order like "build a garages for planes". So they put tires on planes and called it protection. Now soldiers have to move tires around, fill the journals, sign them up. New procedures are developed. Order is fulfilled. Everyone was happy. May be someone even got a promotion for creating a plane defence system so cheap.




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