Chaff and flares are defensive countermeasures used to confuse enemy radar and heat-seeking missiles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Justin Norton) ...

To give pilots more realistic training, the Air Force has proposed increasing their range from 7,000 to 28,000 square miles in South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. The ...

The prevalence of radar-guided missiles has led jets to adopt a countermeasure known as chaff ... so the United States Air Force makes it a point to include flares on necessary aircraft to ...

A potentially dangerous phosphorus flare washed up on Montrose Beach this week after a military exercise gone wrong, and the ...

Retired US Air Force Brig. Gen. Houston Cantwell ... operators have performed reckless maneuvers, or discharged chaff, or shot off flares, or approached too rapidly or too close to US aircraft ...