I thought defense would be another likely user. Chaff would use huge quantities of it.
Doesn't chaff work by being an aerial? And so it needs to be a certain length?
http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/sites/default/fil...
> Chaff consists of aluminum-coated glass fibers (also referred to as dipoles) ranging in lengths from 0.8 to 0.75 cm.
> Figure 1. Radio frequency chaff cartridges (Air Force version RR-188/AL, top; Navy version RR-144/AL, bottom) and chaff fibers (right). Fibers of different lengths can be seen in the Navy operational version (clear cylinder). These lengths correspond to the frequency modes of the radar spectrum
Chaff is a little different. For instance, most glitter is plastic, and plastic wouldn't do any good against radar. Here's what it really looks like:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Usnchaff...
But but metallized plastic!
Yup, wiki says it can be metallized plastic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)
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