Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

What looked liked rain on an Aussie weather radar this week turned out to be masking something a lot more powerful. What appeared to be an ominous storm cloud rolling across the weather radar was ...

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 ...

My wife, Debbie, makes weekly loaves of fresh sourdough bread! This bread goes well with anything, but particularly delicious with a cup of coffee! Which makes me think of the process of getting the ...

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 ...