Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsj!cbnewsi!cbnewsh!cbnewse!cbnewsd!cbfsb!cbnewsc!cbnews!cbnews!military From: hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Hager) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Barrage balloons for cruise missile defense? Message-ID: <1991Jan25.031024.9766@cbnews.att.com> Date: 25 Jan 91 03:10:24 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Lines: 17 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Paul Hager It occurs to me that the low-flying cruise missiles being used in the Iraq War would be quit vulnerable to the old WW II barrage balloon. What sort of avoidance capability is built into the guidance system of a cruise missile? At what altitude does the cruise normally fly? Would barrage balloons be effective against any low-level penetrator? -- paul hager hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself" -- Sir Richard F. Burton