weutil@ih1ap.UUCP (David Pope) (06/14/84)
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Actually, the practice of foil 'clouds' is still widespread among
fighter aircraft (i.e. FB-111). For the Homebrewer, I can pass on that
the reflections are most confusing to RADAR if the foil is cut to squares
that are one-half or one-quarter of the RADAR's wavelength. Possible
problems to this cloud (known as CHAFF in the USAF) are that since
police radar is at lower freqs (I'm not familiar with the exact specs)
the chaff pieces could be quite large. ALso an auto-ejector would help
for split second launches. The biggest drawback to this system would
be the $50 littering fine.
David L. Pope
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