Barrage Balloons

A Barrage Balloon is a giant balloon or even a small blimp that were used to prevent low flights and pinpoint bombings by the Luftwaffe. These blimps/big balloons were tied/moored to wagons with strong cables that would destroy any aircraft that hit them. Also, these blimps were put up by the Air Raid Precautions, which could control the height of the Barrage balloon at any time. Mainly, the Barrage Balloon achieved its main goal by discouraging dive bombers and low level flights. I think this was a pretty good way to take away low level bombings and dive bombers because it was much more cost effective than building more planes or turrets/city protection. Also, this was a creative way to stop low level flight with a Blimp tied to a strong cables. Although, I don't think that they should've made a lot of these because with the money from building the Barrage Balloons they could have used that towards new technology and planes. Lastly, the Barrage Balloon was simply a quick fix to low level flights and achieved its goal of disabling low level flight.