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re: WWII Thread: Lesser known aircraft that you like
Posted on 4/5/16 at 2:05 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 4/5/16 at 2:05 pm to Darth_Vader
There seems to be quite a few plane enthusiasts in this thread. A guy I know from the park (dog, not gloryhole thank you 
) said his dad had escaped German gunfire by dropping "aluminum strips" or something along those lines to confuse the German radar.
Anyone else heard of that? If so, what planes would have been capable of that? Are they "lead planes" or what? TIA
) said his dad had escaped German gunfire by dropping "aluminum strips" or something along those lines to confuse the German radar. Anyone else heard of that? If so, what planes would have been capable of that? Are they "lead planes" or what? TIA
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Posted on 4/5/16 at 2:09 pm to idlewatcher
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said his dad had escaped German gunfire by dropping "aluminum strips" or something along those lines to confuse the German radar.
The British code name for this was "window".
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Chaff, originally called Window[1] by the British, and Düppel by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe (from the Berlin suburb where it was first developed), is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallized glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of primary targets on radar screens or swamps the screen with multiple returns.
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