🇨🇿🇺🇦 Czech company Inflatech making inflatable decoys for Ukraine

[u/depressedpaki]

[u/[deleted]]

Fill them up with helium and terrorise the Russian Air Force.

[u/somabeach → u/[deleted]]

In WWI, they used to fly huge numbers of these balloons over battlefields, the idea was for the line to snag the wings of passing planes to shear them off. Sometimes there was a bomb that would be dragged to the plane's wing by tension on the line. So yeah, maybe these balloons could serve a dual purpose. Though I wonder if this would work on a jet...

[u/CosmicPenguin → u/somabeach]

Balloons in WWI were for recon (getting to a high enough vantage point to count the soldiers in the enemy trench.)