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 ...

How chaff was invented in World War II. Roger Connor Whipple donated this packet of chaff, a cardboard envelope filled with hundreds of strands of aluminum. Center: A Boeing B-17 airman pushes chaff ...

Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force has awarded an $11.7 million contract to Armtec Countermeasures to enhance the F-22 Raptor’s radar countermeasure capabilities with the RR-196 chaff. -This ...

The National Weather Service said Saturday it wasn’t a large swarm of grasshoppers its radar imaging caught moving into northwest Utah after all. A week after announcing that alarming discovery, the ...

Meteorologists may have discovered what caused a mysterious blip in the weather radar in Illinois and Kentucky earlier this week. On Monday afternoon, large blips that would usually indicate stormy ...

A Chinese fighter jet and Australian multi-mission patrol aircraft were involved in a dangerous midair incident over the South China Sea late last month. During the event, a Chinese plane released ...

A C-130H Hercules from the 302nd Airlift Wing expends chaff and flares during a training sortie as a part of exercise Ivy Mass 2024, June 13, 2024, in eastern Colorado. Chaff and flares are defensive ...