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The Economist's report has soldiers painting trucks in looping stripes and blotches to throw off the machine-vision models steering today's autonomous strike drones, a decades-old fix aimed at a machine that costs far more to build than a can of paint.

One high-karma engineer in the thread called it battlefield theater: modern strike drones barely have the resolution at altitude to make out a stripe, and the pattern may flag the truck to a detection model rather than hide it.

Drone Rada wants 10,000 phones across the Baltics and Poland, using devices already sitting in drawers and no technical skill from volunteers.

The hard objection: Shaheds have climbed from ~500m to 2,000-3,000m, with the newest reaching 5,000m — high enough to be near-inaudible from the ground.