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Russia is planning to use barrage balloons to counter Ukrainian drone strikes. The balloons will rise up to 300 meters and drop a 250-meter net to stop drones from getting through. The tactic was ...

As the Pentagon looks to buy innovative weapons for Ukraine, it might do well to explore the humble barrage balloon. Quaint weapons, associated with an old-fashioned way of war, the barrage balloon ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (Feb. 6, 2014) -- The battalion was raised up in 1942 just a year after the Coastal Artillery Corps took over responsibility for barrage balloons from the Army Air Corps. "The 320th ...

Henry Parham is believed to be the last surviving member of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion. All the soldiers in the battalion were black, and they had an important role in the D-Day invasion.

Editor’s note: Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles appears in every other Sunday’s print edition of the Times-Herald. Concrete bomb shelters on the Navy’s former Mare Island shipyard provide rock-solid ...

Russia is developing a network of barrage balloons to repel Ukrainian drone strikes, inspired by a tactic used in World War I and II. Speaking at a conference in St. Petersburg this week, Polina Albek ...