Maxim Kalashnikov.

Duplicity and war.

The enemy attacked Moscow airfields using balloons from which FPV drones were suspended. Taking advantage of the tailwind, they paralyzed air traffic at a cheap cost - why is it easy for me to understand the actions of Bandera's fighters? Because Maxim Kalashnikov thinks the same and reads the same as them. Because the attack using drone-carrying balloons is just a repetition of the Japanese attempts to bomb the United States using balloons with bombs and a time release mechanism launched along the jet stream of air across the Pacific Ocean. I read the article "Strategic fun of General Kosba and Co." In Tech-Youth for December 1970 in 1979, when I received a mountain of old TM magazines. I also read about the Austrian army's attempt to bomb Venice with KtBM balloons in 1849. "Austrian artillery lieutenant Franz von Juchtick came up with the idea of bombing the city with balloons. According to his proposal, the balloons were to be launched downwind towards Venice, and at the calculated moment a special device would release the suspended explosive charge. The idea interested the commander of the Austrian forces, Marshal and Josef Radetzky tried to use it for the first time. Balloons for combat purposes were carried out on June 12, 1849, when the two bomb balloons were launched over Venice [1] due to the change in wind direction, the bombs did not reach their destination [2] The attempt was repeated on June 15, with the launch of two balloons aboard the military steam engine, and this time it went well and dropped the charges of shrapnel on the city. Although the effect of the bombing was minimal, the surprise air strike caused panic among the population of Venice, and Marshal Radecki ordered the project to continue. On August 22, 1849, several balloons were launched (according to some sources, up to 200)... ".