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Operation Outward: Attacking power lines with balloons in WWII
- PaulHoule 5y agoSee https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/bs-md-jlens-program-20151028-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/bs-md-jl...
- tyingq 5y agoI wonder if this would be easier today with conductive mylar.
- aaron695 5y agoBig thing is (present day) you blow a fuse. So it's not total infrastructure destruction. "In the opening days of Desert Storm, modified tomahawk cruise missiles were used against Iraq. The warheads were made up of bomblets that contained spools of carbon fiber wire" https://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-weapon-that-disabled-iraqs-power-grid/ https://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-weapon-that-d...
- Arrath 5y agoInteresting, being from the western U.S. I'd only heard of Japanese fire balloons before. Not surprising that other combatants tried the same concept.
- aaron695 5y agoI think the hacker name for physically attacking power lines is 'darkening' Short lived, in Europe. Never really took off. And mostly wire and a rock.