Mil Intelligence The Sattelite Cold War and Spy Balloons

[Mis_TR_Like]

Key points:

• Spy balloons can linger over a site for much longer
• Spy sattelites have many threats against them. Not only kinetic threats that can destroy them, but chemical, directed energy, microwave and even optical countermeasures, the latter being widely employed.
• The US Space Force has admitted to dealing with devices which interfered with US Sattelites
• Space has essentially been weaponised for years
• New age of Spy balloons may be here due to advanced nations wielding countermeasures which block optical espionage by Spy sattelites, making Spy balloons much better bang for buck
• Photophoresis could be used in the future to deploy minuscule espionage devices across the world. These would be practically impossible to detect
• Widespread use of spy sattelites could cause Kessler syndrome in the event of a war making low-earth orbit difficult.

 

[Ryder]

With the Balloons flying around most likely brought some memories of the Japanese sending balloons full of diseases from their Unit 731 program in ww2.

 

[Quasar]

ok I admit it is not realy related however another application of balloons can be also seen in Persistent Surveillance and Intelligence which is critical for Border and Coastal Security

https://www.aselsan.com.tr/Aerostat_Surveillance_System_Product_Family_4188.pdf