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Re: Operation "Fugo"
Posted by: walter M ()
Date: October 17, 2001 06:44PM

<HTML>This operation was discussed in one issue of the Readers' Digest many years ago (The secret Japanese ballons). They stated the balloons were rubber-made (balloons expand with altitude while rice paper doesn't) and had a barometric device releasing ballast to mantain the proper (stratospheric) altitude inside the aerial streem that runs East-West above the Pacific Ocean. Ten pieces of ballast were installed and the bombs released after the last one had been used.
Greetings
walter M</HTML>

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Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Torlef 10/17/2001 06:58AM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; oliver 10/17/2001 07:43AM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; walter M 10/17/2001 06:44PM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; kurt 10/17/2001 10:46AM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Tom Iwanski 10/17/2001 01:31PM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Rainer Kolbicz 10/17/2001 06:35PM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Yuri IL'IN 10/29/2001 02:52AM


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