chaff
Sign in to saveAlso known as Window, radar confusion reflectors, radar window, window (radar jamming device)
radar countermeasure
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Vinony's link graph records 693 inbound references to chaff, and connects out to Doppler effect, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet and Bombing of Hamburg in World War II.
It sits within the topics British inventions, Military equipment introduced from 1940 to 1944 and Military technology.
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Encyclopedic overview
Modern US Navy RR-144 (top) and RR-129 (bottom) chaff countermeasures and containers. Note how the strips of the RR-129 chaff (bottom) are of different widths, while those of the RR-144 (top) are all the same width. The RR-144 is designed to prevent interference with civil ATC radar systems.
Chaff, originally called Window or Düppel, is a radar countermeasure involving the dispersal of thin strips of aluminium, metallized glass fiber, or plastic. Dispersed chaff produces a large radar cross section intended to blind or disrupt radar systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chaff” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.