No...I dont see where you are coming from....because the details and claims are so ass backwards its impossible to draw any conclusions based on the info provided. Only after you get real accurate info can you begin to draw any conclusions. In other words...why in the world would you form a view of ANYTHING after watching some spliced together youtube videos that are full of BAD information? Why?


As for chaff...its simply small strips of material. Sometimes aluminum strips...sometimes mylar...like the balloon from that famous "balloon boy" escapade. They are cut to varying lengths in order to affect the wavelength of a particular radar. Radars of various types use specific frequencies...and these strips...when ejected from an aircraft thoroughly confuse the radar. It is a countermeasure for radar guided missiles and is very effective. You can see in the videos how effective it is. And no they dont drop the strips so that it covers the area indicated by the radar. The radar images in the videos show a HUGE area of hundreds of square miles. It probably took the equivilent of a few large trashbags of chaff material to cause those radar images. Not much at all. Its just spread out over distance and then the wind does the rest.

Here is an image of a navy tech loading either chaff or flares in its dispenser.


Both chaff and flare rounds fit and are launched by the same mechanism. Note the small size of the rounds. A little bigger that a coke can. Imagine these 6 inch very thin mylar strips compressed and loaded in the coke can sized containers..and then released via a small explosive charge. They expand a bit and spread out to cover a larger area. You want them to spread out because each strip has an affect on the accuracy of the radar. Each strip could report an image on a radar the size of a large aircraft. Each cannister contains thousand of stips. Each pod contains from 40 to hundreds of charges depending on which pod type and aircraft type. But overall the actual weight and volume of the strips is not too big. Like I said....a few trashbags of lightweight material you could pick up yourself. Think of it more like 100,000 six inch strips of toilet paper.

The reason why both chaff and flares go in the same dispenser...and are actually launched with the same controller in the aircraft...is because both chaff and flares are countermeasures for missiles. Typically the threat to an aircraft is either radar guided missiles or heat seeking missiles. Hence the reason to develop a countermeasure system that you can easily load one or the other...or in some cases of operating in the area where the threat is unkown...BOTH in the same dispenser. If the threat is unkown you just pop off chaff AND flares alternately.

As to why you would see the news reporting on chaff. It is BOUND to happen at some point. Weather radar covers every square inch of the US. So they are always watching. On the other hand....our armed forces HAVE to train. Its extremely important to do EVERYTHING that you might need to do in combat...in a training exercise. So having chaff show up on weather radar is inevitable.

But once again....these internet kooks are so confused about reality...they screwed up their own theories due to ignorance. Ignorance of something is just fine. I am ignorant of a great many things. But if you are ignorant in a particular area....DONT GO MAKING CRAZY CLAIMS...lol.

So lets recap...chaff is not contrails and they have nothing to do with each other.