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Talk About Trial Balloons: Military Mulls Lighter-Than-Air Strategy To Help Defend Against Missiles

Lighter than air system is likened to a Ring doorbell video camera for America’s front porch.

Larry Mayer/the Billings Gazette via AP
A high-altitude balloon floats over Billings, Montana, February 1, 2023. Larry Mayer/the Billings Gazette via AP
IRA STOLL
IRA STOLL

To help defend against Chinese spy balloons and other incoming threats, America could develop and deploy some balloons of its own.

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IRA STOLL
IRA STOLL

Mr. Stoll was a founding partner in the New York Sun and its former managing editor. He is author of 'JFK, Conservative' and editor and founder of The Editors.

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