Radar confusion reflectors, which consist of thin, narrow metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses, used to reflect echoes for confusion purposes. Fr: plaquettes de brouillage
Lightweight reflecting material, typically consisting of aluminum foil strips or metal-coated fibers, that is released in the atmosphere to produce radar echoes. Initially developed as a military countermeasure, chaff is used in meteorological research to enable tracking of air motions in conditions with no natural airborne scatterers or to provide stronger echoes than those from natural scatterers.
A combination of metalic particles and heat flares which can be deployed around a VT to confuse the targeting systems of guided missiles. Each chaff unit is only effective against a single missile salvo.
Thin strips of foil used to confuse radar
Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. Chaff drops once were conducted by the military in order to confuse enemy radar, but now are conducted mainly for radar testing and calibration purposes.
Thin, narrow metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses used to reflect electronic echoes for confusion purposes on radar screens.
Radar-reflective particulate matter sized to match known or suspected wavelengths being used by the enemy, and released by an aircraft to confuse detection systems.
foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons in order to confuse enemy radar. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. Chaff drops are conducted by some military installations for testing and calibration purposes.
Strips of tin or aluminium foil dumped by aircraft in an attempt to avoid a radar homing missile. The foil reflects radar waves and is designed to confuse the radar seeker on the missile
Chaff refers to light-weight electric-wave reflecting or absorbing objects, which are dispersed for the purpose of deceiving enemy radar and escaping lock-on from a missile. It mainly consists of metal-coated fibres and aluminium foil strips.
Metallic foil ejected by a reentry module to enhance its radar image.
Strips of metal film released to confuse and reflet signals from rader-guided weapons.
Chaff, originally called Window by the British, is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallised glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of secondary targets on radar screens or swamps the screen with multiple returns.