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What's the difference between chaff and flares on an aircraft?

Learn how military aircraft use chaff to confuse radar-guided missiles and flares to divert heat-seeking missiles, and how the two countermeasures work.

Oct. 22, 2026

A U.S. Airman assigned to the Collaborative Combat Aircraft Experimental Operations Unit loads an inert missile onto a YFQ-44A Fury aircraft at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. USAF photo by Senior Airman Renee Blundon.

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RF/Analog

What's the difference between chaff and flares on an aircraft?

Building the open systems future for military electronics

OpenWorks supplies counter-drone system for DHS

How materials handle higher-power directed-energy weapons

Honeywell Aerospace wins spot on $1.5 billion DHS counter-drone contract

Elsight adds cellular-based positioning and GPS spoofing detection for uncrewed systems

TrustPoint and Calian test C-band GNSS antenna using live satellite signal

Knowles adds 105-degree C capacitors to Cornell Dubilier CLS Flatpack series

Echodyne, ACS team to integrate radar with Bullfrog counter-drone weapon system

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