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To: SkyDancer

Chaff is not going to present a huge signature like that. Its only purpose is to confuse radar-guided missiles. I seriously doubt that weather radar would even pick it up.


14 posted on 12/12/2018 9:01:40 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Different frequencies and all that. There’s electronic jamming now not mechanical like chaff.


15 posted on 12/12/2018 9:05:53 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: AlaskaErik

Likely some kind of military electronic jammimg, not mechanical jamming.


16 posted on 12/12/2018 9:07:59 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: AlaskaErik

Radar is radar. If the target has enough of a cross section it’s going to show up. C-130’s can dump butt loads of chaff and that stuff hangs out there forever. I’ve seen chaff clouds that look huge on the screen.


20 posted on 12/12/2018 9:14:58 AM PST by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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