Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Barrage Balloons

Also searchable as Balloon Barrages.

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  1. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:47:58Explosive balloons as an air-defence proposalQ&A
  2. Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception
    25:49Delay exposes Taranto's defences and Eagle's crews reinforce IllustriousNotable Point
  3. Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...
    35:12Taranto's defenses and the risks faced by Swordfish crewsChapter
  4. Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...
    1:03:51Organizing a three-wave night strikeChapter
  5. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    1:57:46Were barrage balloons also used to defend convoys?Q&A
  6. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    2:18:24Why Pearl Harbor's barrage balloons were not aloftQ&A
  7. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    2:20:21Could barrage balloons carry missile decoys?Notable Point
  8. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    3:56:13Japan had no barrage balloons ready for DoolittleQ&A
  9. Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary
    50:35Would faster torpedo aircraft have improved the raid?Q&A
  10. The Operation: Taranto Long Patrol p4
    20:21A balloon cable nearly sends a Swordfish into TarantoChapter
  11. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s
    28:51Barrage balloons created an aerial obstacle fieldQ&A
  12. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond
    33:38Torpedo debris reveals only part of the shallow-water methodNotable Point
  13. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 2 of 3: Fleet Air Arm's Finest Hour
    17:10The Swordfish manoeuvres around obstacles at wave-top heightNotable Point
  14. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 2 of 3: Fleet Air Arm's Finest Hour
    1:13:53The second wave returns through an alerted harbourChapter
  15. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 2 of 3: Fleet Air Arm's Finest Hour
    1:20:16A loose balloon cable and a burst shell fail to stop a SwordfishNotable Point
  16. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark
    57:18Pollock bypasses an intelligence-sharing barrierChapter
  17. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    1:37:36The layered air defences around TarantoNotable Point
  18. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    1:57:38Flying beneath guns that could endanger their own fleetNotable Point
  19. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    2:50:25A balloon cable and a near crash into TarantoNotable Point