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Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK
Sorry Natehale, those weren't blimps, they were unmanned balloons called barrage balloons. They were used throughout the uk and even off the back of ships. Stormont, the Northern Ireland Assembly building, is near where I live, and along the sides of the driveway up to it you can still see some of the baseplates where barrage balloons were tethered.
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I knew they where unmanned, i just didn't know what they where called... To me, the pictures i saw looked like what we call blimps here.  But thanks for telling me what they where. I have always wondered... didn't they use them to hold up metal nets?
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