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- From: Juan.Barroux@Corp.Sun.COM (Juan Carlos Barroux - Technical Consultant - Latin America)
- Subject: Re: WW2 BARRAGE
- Message-ID: <Bzs8pK.L9y@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- References: <Bzq2oy.4HC@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:22:32 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Juan.Barroux@Corp.Sun.COM (Juan Carlos Barroux - Technical Consultant - Latin America)
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- I remember reading about a balloon system used today for base defense.
- The idea was to raise very quickly the balloon by inflating them with
- helium gas under presure. The balloon will be placed in the preferred
- flight path for attacking low-level planes. This is likely to ruin the
- day for any Tornado pilot with a JP-23 bomb. The rising of the balloons
- was remotely controlled by the base AA defense control room. It was also
- part of a more complete system which included smoke generators, alarms
- and shaff. Traditional missiles and gun systems will then take care of
- the planes that had to go up. You can place those system so they can
- help each others.
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- Anyone has any hard data if this system was made operational or not?
- And where?
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- Speaking for himself,
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- Juan Carlos
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