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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Royal Navy is banking on state-of-the-art decoy launchers to protect its stealth ships. The £135 million (US$170 million) Ancilia Trainable Decoy Launcher project will counter the latest missile ...