franklyn - 23-1-2015 at 18:18
Bet you didn't know
" In August 1849, Austrian Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky did something no one had done before: He bombed a city from the air.
His target was Venice, then in rebellion against the Hapsburg crown. During the siege, he launched a fleet of some 200 unmanned
linen balloons, carrying bombs made from canister shot and gunpowder, triggered to drop over the besieged city."
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/rpav_home.html#Beginn...
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/July-August-...
http://airminded.org/2009/08/22/the-first-air-bomb-venice-15...
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A century later and still at it.
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/forensic_geology/Japenese%20ven...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
Japan's World War II Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America
http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/AnnalsofFligh...
[Edited on 24-1-2015 by franklyn]
Hawkguy - 23-1-2015 at 18:50
Thats actually pretty damn cool..
Japanese balloon bombs
franklyn - 6-2-2015 at 03:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGWvyhYActc
Zombie - 6-2-2015 at 14:09
They are still finding traces of the "balloons" scattered ardound the PNW.
It is mind boggling.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/10/10/japanese-balloon-bom...
What else don't we know.
franklyn - 9-2-2015 at 01:43
Who says Balloons are of no millitary consequence.
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/EMP-balloon.html
United States balloon suspension nuclear tests
Source => http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/tests/USA-ntests1.ht...
Operation Plumbbob (1957) - 13 Balloons
Lassen , detonated June 5, 1957 , fizzle yield 600 tons
Wilson , detonated June 18, 1957 , 10 kiloton
Priscilla , detonated June 24, 1957 , 37 kiloton
Hood , detonated July 5, 1957 , 74 kiloton
Owens , detonated July 25, 1957 , 10 kiloton
Stokes , detonated August 7, 1957 , 19 kiloton
Doppler , detonated August 23, 1957 , 11 kiloton
Franklin Prime , detonated August 30, 1957 , 5 kiloton
Wheeler , detonated September 6, 1957 , 200 tons
Laplace , detonated September 8, 1957 , 1 kiloton
Newton , detonated September 16, 1957 , 12 kiloton
Charleston , detonated September 28, 1957 , 12 kiloton
Morgan , detonated October 7, 1957 , 8 kiloton
Operation Hardtack I (1958)
Yucca , detonated 28 April 1958 , 2 kiloton
Hardtack II (1958) - 11 Balloons
Eddy , detonated 19 September 1958 , 80 tons
Mora , detonated 19 September 1958 , 2 kiloton
Hidalgo , detonated 5 October 1958 , 80 tons
Lea , detonated 13 October 1958 , 1.4 kiloton
Dona Ana , detonated 16 October 1958 , 40 tons
Socorro , detonated 22 October 1958 , 6 kiloton
Wrangell , detonated 22 October 1958 , 115 tons
Rushmore , detonated 22 October 1958 , 190 tons
Sanford , detonated 26 October 1958 , 5 kiloton
De Baca , detonated Oct 26, 1958 , 2.2 kiloton
Santa Fe , detonated Oct 30, 1958 , 1.3 kiloton
• Since July 1962, American weapons tests have been underground
British balloon suspension nuclear tests
Operation Antler
Taranaki - Indigo Hammer, detonated Oct 9, 1957 , 27 kiloton
Operation Grapple
Pennant 2 , detonated August 22, 1958 , ~1 Megaton
Burgee 2 , detonated September 23, 1958 , 1 kiloton
French balloon suspension nuclear tests - 34 balloons
Source => http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/tests/FR-ntests1.htm...
Betelguese , detonated September 11, 1966 , 110 kiloton
Altair , detonated June 5, 1967 , 15 kiloton
Antares , detonated June 27, 1967 , 120 kiloton
Capella , detonated July 7, 1968 , 115 kiloton
Castor , detonated July 15, 1968 , 450 kiloton
Pollux , detonated August 3, 1968 , 150 kiloton
Canopus , detonated August 24, 1968 , 2.6 Megaton
Procyon , detonated September 8, 1968 , 1.3 Megaton
Andromede , detonated May 15, 1970 , 13 kiloton
Cassiopee , detonated May 22, 1970 , 225 kiloton
Dragon , detonated May 30, 1970 , 950 kiloton
Eridan , detonated June 24, 1970 , 12 kiloton
Licorne , detonated July 3, 1970 , 915 kiloton
Pegase , detonated July 27, 1970 , 50 tons
Orion , detonated August 2, 1970 , 72 kiloton
Toucan , detonated August 6, 1970 , 595 kiloton
Dione , detonated June 5, 1971 , 34 kiloton
Encelade , detonated June 12, 1971 , 440 kiloton
Japet , detonated July 4, 1971 , 9 kiloton
Phoebe , detonated August 8, 1971 , 4 kiloton
Rhea , detonated August 14, 1971 , 955 kiloton
Umbriel , detonated June 25, 1972 , 500 tons
Titania , detonated June 30, 1972 , 4 kiloton
Oberon , detonated July 27, 1972 , 6 kiloton
Euterpe , detonated July 21, 1973 , 11 kiloton
Melpomene , detonated July 28, 1973 , 50 tons
Pallas , detonated August 18, 1973 , 4 kiloton
Parthenope , detonated August 24, 1973 , 200 tons
Capricorne , detonated June 16, 1974 , 4 kiloton
Gemeaux , detonated July 7, 1974 , 150 kiloton
Centaure , detonated July 17, 1974 , 4 kiloton
Scorpion , detonated August 14, 1974 , 96 kiloton
Taurue , detonated August 24, 1974 , 14 kiloton
Verseau , detonated September 14, 1974 , 332 kiloton
http://club.quizkerala.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/518.jp... - British , Pennant shot
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ky5kPfyHe-0/UId9AFK9OuI/AAAAAAAAC1... - American , Plumbbob balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple#mediaviewer/F... - British test site balloon anchor
How it was
http://www.military.com/video/nuclear-bombs/nuclear-weapons/...
If nothing else nuclear tests are entertaining
http://img1.etsystatic.com/034/3/9020515/il_340x270.56401170...
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/nuclear050611/n26_...
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