The photo of “Japanese war tubas”:http://cominganarchy.com/2008/02/28/behold-the-war-tuba/ I posted last month has proven very popular. A Spanish-language British blog (?) linked to the War Tubas in a post on Soviet anti-zeppelin countermeasures “use of barrage balloons in World War II against aerial bombings”:http://sovietrussia.es/derribando-aviones-con-globos/. [My Spanish sucks, yo - YH] This looks like a sweet post, I only wish the post was in English so we could all enjoy it. Hopefully SR translates it soon.
Anywho, at the very bottom the post includes a pic of some Russian war tubas. I bet the operators are frozen stuck to them! I wonder how effective they would be against virtually silent zeppelins?
PS. I miss zeppelins. We need more. I am hereby issuing a directive — CA community, get inflating!
About Younghusband
Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and
Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game.
"Younghusband" is a Canadian who has spent a number of years bouncing back and forth between his home country and Japan. Fluent in Japanese and English with experience in numerous other languages from Spanish to Georgian, Younghusband has travelled throughout Asia. He graduated with an MA from the War Studies Department at the
Royal Military College of Canada, where he focussed on the Japanese oil industry and energy security issues. He has recently returned to Canada from Japan, and is working in the technology sector.
achtung!
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Привет !
First of all thanks a lot for your mention and my apologizes for being so delayed with the translation into English (hopefully it will be published no later than tomorrow).
This post is devoted to the use of barrage balloons in World War II against aerial bombings. I go briefly through the history of aerostats at war, I explain a little bit about how they played a key role in the defense of the UK as well as during he Invasion of Normandy and finally I focus on how they were used to protect Moscow. Those ‘tubas’ were part of the soviet air defense system, just like the blimps. Their purpose was to spot the German airplanes.
Please, stay tuned to SovietRussia.co.uk ;)
PS: By the way, if you’re also keen on the Cold War, do not miss the post Cold War blazing skies.
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“…I am hereby issuing a directive — CA community, get inflating!”
I miss zeppelins too, but I don’t think that, even collectively, we are capable of generating enough hot air.
Hey vKT, I have been doing my part for the last three years! There’s gotta be at least 1 blimp in there somewhere.
Although not a blimp, the Hindenburg presents a useful example of why hydrogen will always be a rotten transportation fuel. After the Hindenburg had flown to New Jersey from Germany, there was still more energy in the residual diesel fuel than in the hydrogen of the vessel….
YH:
You miss Zeppelins? Then come back!
60 minuites over Tokyo on a cutting edge Zeppelin NT for 126000yen.
http://www.nac-airship.com/
Finally I managed to find some time to translate the post into English, so you’re all welcomed to take a look at Bringing down planes with balloons ;)
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I’m still not sure how these Tubas work against the balloons. Do you have more details? Check out my blog at mdoncall.blogspot.com. I’d love to have more Russians visit!