When WWI Turned Balloons into Something Terrifying #battlefield #battlefield1

The barrage balloon was intended to clip the wings of aircraft or force them to a higher altitude for AA gunners. Either way, they were difficult to shoot down, easily replaced, and the Germans hated them so much Great Britain brought them back in the sequel. They're also a hazard in Battlefield 1.

[Leo_Ponn]

Meanwhile these are in war thunder where both teams immediately destroy them.

[nefarioulyte]

"battlefield 1 features some large balloo-"
the F-22 that somehow found a time machine on its way to the location:

[tommymaxey]

When you see them at first you'll go "how would anyone hit that thing its so big". But i have like 200+ hours on the game and ran into one last month

[NinjaSquid]

I have a ww1 plane flying vr game and these things can be a bit of a pain in the ass but are quickly taken out by a flare

[treytat]

It was also a giant beacon letting the allies know that they don’t want to be attacked there. Idk I’m not a genius, so I don’t have a better idea.😂

[beanlord]

These shorts hit me right in the nostalgia every time

[FIRE_BOMB]

Who needs accuracy when you have a U.S. economy

[MichaelHernandez-rpny]

Higher king of the sky he's flying to fast and he's to high

[gaymer]

That death at the end was both comical and brutal.

[SquareFoil]

The alliteration makes them sound like some shit a supervillain would use

[ICDZOMBIE]

I wonder if they ever detonated an artillery shell

[Galendy]

God video dude, just to clarify, these were so big (for those of you who doesn’t notice, most must have noticed) that just spraying them with bullets didn’t work, so only incendiary equipment or a plane crashing would actually disable them.

[Tucher]

To be honest, I was new to planes since it was a tad hard to get into them so I can say higher altitudes is very difficult to master but the biggest threat when you want deadly accurate when dive bombing are these balloons, and dense fog, sandstorms including.

[thattrillYT]

Meanwhile BV does literally nothing to counter planes

[AaryanLuthra]

In enlisted, if there are barrage balloons (only found is the normandy campaign im pretty sure), you may get a secondary objective to destroy/defend the balloons.

[RyanM]

And at one time, a Captain of the British Home Guard found himself stuck to one via its tether.

[Terrysberg]

There is also a barrage balloon in Tannenberg in the far distance on the Dobrudja map

[SkolValhalla]

This reinforces my opinion that WW1 is one of, if not the most, interesting war in modern history

[jdestrodegr]

In Enlisted these annoying things definitely work

[williamcoon]

I thought it was meant to be more like decoy blimps like what they used on D-Day blow up tanks plans military vehicles in general to make the enemy think they had a lot more than what they did