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Who's Buying All The Glitter?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Using Glitter Bombs in the US Air Force

The Department of Defense as of 2018 has only one supplier of chaff of, you know, glitter. And this is a place called Easter Line Defense Technologies and they have a subsidiary called ArmTech. When Henry reached out to ArmTech and to their parent company, he was able to confirm that their chaff is made of metalized glass fibers. So much closer to the old school glass glitter.

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