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.

Some flights by military aircraft over the eastern Lower Peninsula would be as low as 500 feet under proposed training plans.

The State Department has approved Australia’s foreign military sale request for countermeasures, chaff and impulse cartridges ...

The AN/ALQ-131 is a new and critical capability for the Ukrainian air force, which entered the wider war in February 2022 ...

The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial ... It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications.

The F-5 also has anti-skid brakes, Initial Navigation System (INS), ALR-87 Radar Warning Receivers (RWR), AN/APQ-159 radar and ALE-40 chaff/flare capability. This aircraft carries AIM-9 Sidewinder ...

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 ...