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 ...
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 ...
Radar technology is useful for detecting meteorological changes and patterns, but earlier this month, weather equipment picked up a more baffling phenomenon in North Texas. On Jan. 20, the National ...