Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian soldier parade with barrage balloons in Moscow's Red Square - VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP Russia plans to build a network of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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If you have ever viewed any of the film documentaries on the D-Day landing in France on June 6, 1944 in World War II you may have noticed the many silver balloons overhead that were anchored to the ...

The British balloon-bomb plan happened by accident. One night in late 1940, a fierce storm ripped a number of British barrage balloons from their moorings (small zeppelin-shaped anti-aircraft balloons ...