balloon bombs will be next drone craze. screen cap me.balloons will be used to ferry glide drones most of the way to target, including large number of decoy balloons, then the balloons will release glide bombs switch will be guided to their targets via a single pulse of hi-energy radio on a particular wave length, triangulated, then the glider extrapolates dead reckoning from pre-programmed map, then maybe finish off with AI "FPV" camera/landmarks, etc.Defense will be problematic because balloons will be fairly high, like 30,000ft +, so only a real jet or SAM or major league AAA (that now only exists in museums) could touch them, and you still got LOTS of decoys that would need to be addressed. In addition, decoy balloons would release cheap decoy glide bombs, and the real bombs would be programmed to take round about path to target, so you'd be faced with all these "crazy like a fox" glide bombs that would all have to be considered legit threats.Figure the bombs will have about 100 miles glide range after release.These will be much cheaper, and even more long range, than even the Iranian lawn-mower engine prop jobs.The fact they might take a week to arrive, and could be 24hrs of more of "possible detach point/time" over possible targets, and about an hour of final flight time per release, will be as much a feature as a weakness.
>>65201976Aircrafts with hard kill lasers can fully counter them. But this tech is very high level and would take years to develop.
>>65201990double bag the balloons with outer bag with intumescent paint. gonna take a major league blaster and likely a return trip to defeat such a balloon, and WTF knows whet might be waiting for the attacking jet when he comes back for a second close pass.Your gonna need to run you top tier laser armed jets 24/7/365 like Looking Glass or Operation Crome Dome, just to counter some backyard weather balloon party from 3,000 miles away.And WTF about clouds and lasers? :)
>>65201976The payload can be just an FPV or several. The high altitude makes it possible to use them as a communcation relay.
>slow >easy to spot with radar>large targetit aint surviving
>>65201976I love you, anon, but you're an idiot.
>>65202011>double bag the balloons with outer bag with intumescent paintBalloons have such thin walls no protection is possible.>And WTF about clouds and lasers? :)30000 ft is above clouds. This makes application of lasers from high altitude aircraft against high altitude very favorable it's above most of atmosphere and weather.>Your gonna need to run you top tier laser armed jets 24/7/365 Ummm, like AWACS planes?
>>65201976>will be guided to their targets via a single pulse of hi-energy radio on a particular wave length, triangulated, then the glider extrapolates dead reckoning from pre-programmed map, then maybe finish off with AI "FPV" camera/landmarks, etcI wish all you midwits vaguely stringing together jargon into word salad would die
>>65202041key is you gotta get up past 30K ft, maybe even much higher.Thats expensive, but the balloons are dirt cheap, and unlike say the Iranian flying lawn mowers, where a decoy costs about same, decoy balloons are mega cheap. Even better, a decoy balloon doesn't need to be same size, etc, as real armed balloon to appear as just as much a threat until someone gets within 1/2 mile to eyeball it.
>>65202075It also makes you rely on the weather and the US has experimented with cloud seeding.
>>65202055thats what the Pentagon, and Kremlin, said about drones before Ukraine and Iran.
I also fig there could be hybrid balloon drones, with mild directional ability. semi-blimps with wing shaped fuselage and tails and they'd used rising/falling in hot/cold day/night cycles to stay on course.
>>65202107The Pentagon did not say that, chink retard
>this thing could be cheap>let's do everything we can to make it not cheapOP post hand
>>65202118>Advanced meterological satellites enable unpowered baloon precision strikes
>>65201976Didn't the nips try that baloon shit against the yanks in WW2 with disastrous results?
>>65202163subs didn't do to good at first either.Jap balloons did go down in History as "first weapon with intercontinental range" and one killed a pregnant woman and 5 kids.
Russian sources already claim Ukrainians use balloons in their mid strike campaign but I think the extent is limited. Also I've heard they experimented with balloons for interceptor drones combating shaheds. These balloons are smaller and would operate in much lower altitudes though, it doesn't make sense to have massive balloons that go really high.
>>65202127https://www.hobbytown.com/guillows-flying-eagle-48-foam-glider-gui2000fe6/p27944probably end up being a 3 stage.strap an RPG round on one of these to fly to over the target, then it drops the rocket powered RPG round with some sort of Temu tier JDAM kit on the fins.
>>65201976A million balloon bombs appear on the horizon..."We'd like to discuss your weather, AND FOREIGN POLICY."
>>65202599since they are so cheap, they could be used as Show Of Force and Domestic Public Opinion Pressure Point.the plebs ain't gonna like it if Fearless Leader say he is protecting them, yet they can look up day or night and see sky over capital full of enemy possible bomb balloons that the enemy says are just "just practicing, but could be real bombs at anytime".
it could work well as mines against aircraft, problem is how do you hide them>use compresed hydrogen canisters in the shape of stealth aircraft with thermal cameras to monitor the sky and then launcher a mid range missile at plane
>>65201976>unsteerable balloons are the future>despite fixed wing motherships already seeing combat use
>>65202658I could see a balloon drone carrier. Uses bouyancy to save on power and is able to push itself via motor along if needed
>>65202659I could see it happening where the prevaling winds allow it but we already have solar powered drones that can fly for days on end that could serve as motherships / relays.
>>65202650Same as parking a carrier because "freedom of navigation". We get away with that ok.
Earth, 2142:The sky is blanketed y balloons. Death Balloons. At any time one can get an order, detatch right above you by 30k feet. The drone controls the fall, right on your head.Otherwise there's thousands in the sky; watching and waiting. Sometimes one detects failure in the balloon inflator but it's ok. It just detonates high and far from any local planes. You hear a boom sometimes.But they're always up there courtesy of SAC, Cheyenne Mountain.
>>65202658>>65202670prob is a Mothership is a target worth targeting, VS 10,000 assorted balloon bombs and decoys, spread over a month of sleepless nights and worried days.
>>65202714>Mothership is a target worth targetingThey are still cheap drones, they just pose a larger threat.
>>65201976>balloons will be used to ferry glide drones most of the way to target>willUkies are already doing this, slowpoke.
Clearly the meta will evolve to interceptor balloons to deal with this new threat.
>>65202809interceptor balloons would be launched in path of incoming balloon bomb swarm. They climb above then eyeball the swarm and release H2 enough to start dropping good, and try to pick out the top bomb balloons and slice them, then target next lower BBs and so on.Interceptors would be reusable.
Are we leaving out that the first country to do this to the US is going to get their face eaten off during the retaliatory chimpout? Hard to launch these things when your staging ground is just one large crater.
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