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 ...

With not a drop of rain falling in Northwest Florida on Thursday from this signature, many may have been wondering what exactly this anomaly was. The National Weather Service in Mobile identified this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...