Chinese fighter jets have repeatedly been accused of engaging in unsafe intercepts of US and allied aircraft by flying too close and recklessly popping off flares and chaff in their flight paths.

A privacy technique that is simpler than encrypting a message with a key. Chaff is the unusable part of a plant, and winnow means to separate the chaff so it can be discarded. Thus, chaff is sent ...

Chinese fighter jets have been popping flares or releasing chaff near foreign aircraft. Most recently, a Chinese J-16 let off flares close to an Australian P-8A to warn it off. This tactic has been ...