27.04.2008, 07:22
vanir Wrote:I was just wondering, what is it barrage balloons do? I assume they just keep a bunch of cables taught over an airfield so that low flying strafers and fighter-bombers get their wings ripped off? I mean they always seem to be around airfields and quite a few of them. Is this right?
Well, it's to block planes... Some merchant ships seemed to have them, can someone verify this?