Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cockpit. There, at a console packed with indicator lights and video monitors, a specially trained electronics war officer can monitor the airspace around Air Force One. Should danger be indicated, he can unleash several electronic countermeasures, including radar jammers, fine-tuned infrared flares and billowing clouds of metallic chaff...
...like the French-built R-530s that Colombian air force jets are known to carry. These rockets spot their prey with radar beams and follow the echoes toward the target. One way to divert a missile flying along a radar beam is to fire off a burst of metallic chaff particles. They cause the missile's radar guidance system to go haywire amid a blizzard of electronic gibberish...
...Well John the harvest is all in; the granary is knee deep in dust and chaff. Will have to something about that problem before we can house people up there. As you say John, there is plenty for folk to do here. We could almost be self-supporting with all the garden we have back and front. I would dearly love to see it happen and be able to hand it over to younger people, eventually, of like mind, who would keep the place operating. It will happen John, God Willing. Well, old son I'm going to make this...