Message posted by Duke on August 05, 2020 at 11:32:28 PST:

Your charts show chaff dropped at 5km (roughly 16500 ft) drops to something as high as .6km (roughly 2000 ft) in five hours, meaning it drops at a little less than 3000 ft/hr. So to stay in the air 10+ hours, the drop would have had to have been from near 30K ft. There are lots of USAF a/c that would have a chaff system and can fly that high, including a lightly loaded C-130.

I still wonder why there were multiple chaff releases in multiple locations over a relatively short period of time. As I recall, there were 5-6 different instances, all in the eastern half of the country. I asked a few former colleagues who flew in the USAF how many times they ever fired chaff, only one of them (MC-130 pilot) had ever done so, and that was during an exercise over a range.

In Reply to: Re: Radar jamming? posted by Mojo on August 04, 2020 at 19:31:58 PST:

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