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Re: Soviet balloon
Yes Franek, Finnish infantry hated them, especially during Winter War when the Finns had only 11 heavy cannons (107mm K10 or 13), a couple of which were purchased from Poland in 20s, with only limited number of shells (3700 or 5000 altogether depending on source) for all counter artillery works. And during most of the winter War only some 30 almost modern fighters (Fokker D.21s), which had many pressing jobs to do besides trying to hinder Soviet fire control planes and balloons.
Srecko,
The balloons were used in observation and fire-control work and even if I don't know my quess would have been that they belonged to ground forces but Csaba has already given answer to that question.
Glad that my earlier answer helped
Juha
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