Ukraine, along with drones, launched a lot of balloons into Russia: how they increased the attack

One of the media interlocutors reported that there were many balloons, at the same time he did not voice assumptions about their purpose or tactical and technical characteristics. He only noted: "They have no accuracy. " As the Russian edition of Meduza assumes, balloons could carry meteolosonds or other equipment. As a rule, it is filled with helium latex spheres with a diameter of several meters at the height of the sea level, which expand, rising higher.

Such means of both Russian and Ukrainian troops have been used more than repeatedly to deceive air defense systems (air defense) and radar stations. Each radar can track a limited number of objects, for example, the anti-aircraft missile complex "C-300" simultaneously captures no more than 65 goals. When there are more objects, even if they are harmless, the system is overloaded and the rocket or shock drone can overcome the protection and affect the conditional factory or airfield.

In addition, the air defense system must operate in active mode (ie switching radars), which allows the enemy to detect where the radar radiation radiation remedies are located. Thanks to this information, you can build routes for drones through areas that are not "seen". To overload the air defense systems, the balloons are equipped with corner metal reflectors that distort and increase their reflective surface in the radio.

Usually it is a tetrahedra or octahedra that reflect the ray of the active radar strictly in the opposite direction. So radars show balloons as objects much larger. Usually the balloons are not equipped with engines, but move along with air flows. The military can only be used effectively if the wind blows towards the enemy.

As the Ventusky meteorological service shows, on the night of September 23, the northeast wind at 9-15 m/c could direct helium devices from Chernihiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine towards Bryansk, Kursk, Tula, Ryazan and Moscow. In 2024, they wrote how the Armed Forces used balloons in the war against Russia. Judging by the photos published by the Russians, they carry ammunition and containers with an incendiary mixture.

In addition, the balls are equipped with GPS trackers showing where the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were beaten. The Canadian expert believes that such remedies do not cause significant harm, but create many inconveniences, as well as collect important information that helps to plan up -to -date attacks. In May 2025, it became known that the Ukrainian company Aerobavovna developed a new model of balloons for the Armed Forces.