JOPLIN, Mo. — It’s hard to shoot down an enemy plane you can’t find. That was the whole idea behind a surprisingly low tech means of neutralizing German radar on D-Day. “When you can’t see the plane ...

Chaff - the shreds of aluminum, fiberglass and plastic used by the military to help trick radars - is considered safe, even though government officials concede research on the effect it has on humans ...

If you've watched "Top Gun," you might've noticed that the F/A-18's countermeasures use chaff/flare. While both chaff and flares are used by military aircraft to defend against incoming missiles, they ...

A clump of chaff fibers landed at Zierdt Road near Highway 20 on Tuesday. (Bob Gathany/[email protected]) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Military chaff that distort weather radar, similar to the phenomenon that ...

What looked liked rain on an Aussie weather radar this week turned out to be masking something a lot more powerful. What appeared to be an ominous storm cloud rolling across the weather radar was ...

The mystery was solved. Then it wasn’t. Then it was. Now, well, who knows? Back on Dec. 10, the Evansville area was embroiled in intrigue when mysterious radar blips appeared over Southern Illinois ...

Western Australia's chaff industry is getting a face lift after more than 100 years. Bindoon-based processor Jamie Turner has recently turned his hand to chaff manufacturing after spending several ...

Have you ever felt left out? It’s no fun being excluded by others, right? In today’s story, we’ll meet two animals who are always excluding others – until one crafty critter finds a way to invite ...

Fort Campbell and Scott Air Force Base denied that the C-130 came from there. Meteorologists may have discovered what caused a mysterious blip in the weather radar in Illinois and Kentucky earlier ...