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Russia is developing barrage-balloon systems to protect oil refineries and other strategic sites from Ukrainian drones. One concept uses radar-guided balloons to automatically adjust cables into an incoming drone’s flight path, trapping it before impact. #Russia

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And where do you find all this Helium needed to inflate your blimp if the cold boxes of your Air Separation Units are blown by the said drones ? Ah Hydrogen ? You're going the Hindenburgh way ? Bold Strategy.

First drone overflies them with one of those thermite dispersion systems, burns them all down in one pass. Following drones fly in normally. That's is you can't just dive bomb over it all anyway.

Some young engineers, I see the boomers doing their thing. I can't imagine the mess when they will friendly fire them with cables falling over the position stopping ground forces from moving.

I actually thought this could be an option for Ukraine when I saw videos of drones flying low over Kyiv! Force the drones higher for easier radar detection and AD targeting!