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 ...

Please explain “distinguish the wheat from the chaff” in this sentence - Many of us become unwilling to take the mental and spiritual effort required to distinguish the wheat from the chaff of what we ...

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 ...

The 107th Airlift Wing went on a night formation training mission on Sept. 25, 2012, fully loaded with live flares to be used in a training scenario. A flare is a countermeasure to enemies' infrared ...

A privacy technique that is simpler than encrypting a message with a key. Chaff is the unusable part of a plant, and winnow means to separate the chaff so it can be discarded. Thus, chaff is sent ...

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 ...

It is not only the lower yield of wheat but the lower quantity of wheat chaff (livestock fodder), called toori in local parlance, too is haunting farm labourers and small farmers. Bathinda: It is not ...