This is not a new idea: the British[1] tried using balloons with trailing wires during World War II (in the hope they'll short power lines). As far as I can rec

This is not a new idea: the British[1] tried using balloons with trailing wires during World War II (in the hope they'll short power lines). As far as I can recall (I can't find a source right now) the Japanese put lots of copper wires in their fire balloons[2] too, to hopefully cause a short when they explode. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outward [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon