Barrage Baloons with Grenades ?

[glevum]

The Barrage Balloon Reunion Club have a website.

There is some information on the Free Barrage Balloons on it.

http://www.bbrclub.org/free_balloon_operations_in_world.htm

 

[millsbomber]

The rocket fired anti aircraft system used parachutes either end of the wire to bring down the planes the Germans did some thing to the wings of the planes so your device was fitted to the barrage balloon cables to counter this.... of cause we the British devised a cable cutter built into the wing of the plane

 

[Millsman]

Trying to pin all this down.

Barrage Balloons
Rockets and
Special Balloons

Operationally this looks the best report
http://www.bbrclub.org/free_balloon_...s_in_world.htm

I do know the rocket system was tried in the Battle of Britain.

John

 

[siegfreid]

It would appear from Tony's post that my item has no connection to barrage balloons whatsoever & is basically a free firing rocket AA system .

 

[Millsman]

It would appear from Tony's post that my item has no connection to barrage balloons whatsoever & is basically a free firing rocket AA system .

Yes Mike, and probably rarer for that!

 

[US-Subs]

I'm running late as usual, just not enough hours in the day. Here are a few pages from my document - it is only an FM, not a TM as I had stated, but it is the only document on the US BB that I have ever found. I only had time to scan a couple of pages, but hopefully it answers some questions - for this version at least.

 

[Millsman]

I'm running late as usual, just not enough hours in the day. Here are a few pages from my document - it is only an FM, not a TM as I had stated, but it is the only document on the US BB that I have ever found. I only had time to scan a couple of pages, but hopefully it answers some questions - for this version at least.

Brilliant. Many thanks for posting that. Also describes the basic link between the rocket and the balloon AAD's.

John

 

[Bonnex]

Herewith some UK information:

View attachment British Rocket Stores plates 1.pdfView attachment British Rocket Stores plates 2.pdfView attachment British Rocket Stores tables 1.pdfView attachment British Rocket Stores tables 2.pdf

 

[AE501]

Yet more UK information from naval circles.

 

[Peter Garwood]

The AAD bomb was effective but it was realised much later in the war that it produced limited shrapnel. A further bomb device was trialled which produced shrapnel. I will see if I can dig out a picture in my files.