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TIL the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens to fool the NATO. Missiles would home in on any strong source of radio emission in the 400-10000 MHz range, exactly the range of household microwave ovens. In the next days, NATO pilots bombed microwave ovens placed in empty fields instead of Serbian tanks

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