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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – There’s a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...