Of course, that was how barrage balloons worked. They were moderately effective, mostly because no one wanted to plot missions to fly through the barrages. Just seemed like an unnecessary risk.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 5:26 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 6/10/2019 6:58 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
Obviously it didn’t pan out , but I wonder if the basic design is valid? (We’ll ignore the ‘trailing cables to catch bombers', which would make for a briefly interesting Nantucket Sleigh Ride for the unfortunate defenders…)


Bruce Johnson


I think it was the British who developed a rocket with a cable connected to it that was fired when a German plane would show up to strafe an airfield.  They'd fire a barrage of rockets, essentially creating a curtain of cables that the plane had to fly through.  I don't recall if it was successful or not.

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