Russian soldier parade with barrage balloons in Moscow's Red Square - VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP Russia plans to build a network of barrage balloons inspired by the First and Second World Wars to thwart ...

Russia is planning to use barrage balloons to counter Ukrainian drone strikes. The balloons will rise up to 300 meters and drop a 250-meter net to stop drones from getting through. The tactic was ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (Feb. 6, 2014) -- The battalion was raised up in 1942 just a year after the Coastal Artillery Corps took over responsibility for barrage balloons from the Army Air Corps. "The 320th ...

Editor’s note: Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles appears in every other Sunday’s print edition of the Times-Herald. Concrete bomb shelters on the Navy’s former Mare Island shipyard provide rock-solid ...

Henry Parham is believed to be the last surviving member of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion. All the soldiers in the battalion were black, and they had an important role in the D-Day invasion.

One of the most iconic pictures of the Second World War depicts a swarm of barrage balloons floating above the small armada gathered on Normandy Beach — an image re-created in Hollywood films such as ...