Barrage Balloon

No.513 阻塞気球
Balloon.png Surface Ship Equipment
Effects: Evasion+1
Scrap value: Fuel 1 Ammo 0 Steel 0 Bauxite 1 (Unbuildable)

Equipment Card Barrage Balloon.png

Equipment Character Barrage Balloon.png

Equipment Item Barrage Balloon.png

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Refittable Ship Types
Fast Battleship Battleship
Aviation Battleship Standard Aircraft Carrier
Armored Carrier Light Carrier
Heavy Cruiser Aviation Cruiser
Light Cruiser Torpedo Cruiser
Training Cruiser Destroyer
Coastal Defense Ship Submarine
Aircraft Carrying Submarine Seaplane Tender
Fleet Oiler Submarine Tender
Repair Ship Amphibious Assault Ship

Introduction

敵の航空攻撃から艦艇や施設を守るために運用する防空用気球です。
高速で艦隊運動中の艦艇では使用できませんが、着上陸戦闘時の艦艇や、敵の空襲などから陸上施設等を守るために、局地的な戦域で一定の効果を発揮します。
ノルマンディー上陸作戦などでも多数使用されました。
運用が難しく効果も限定的であるため、徐々に姿を消していきます。

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Mechanics

 
Example of a balloon deployed.

  Barrage Balloons can be deployed in certain situations during day battles.

Barrage Balloons can only be deployed on certain combat nodes with Installations
Compatible Nodes
Map Node Notes
3-5 H
4-3 N Boss
4-5 T Boss
6-4 N Boss
Events Refers to the current event page
references [1][2][3][4]
Once deployed
  • For every ship with a balloon equipped will boost the damage of the fleet and the LBAS (post-cap):
Balloon Effects
  1 2 3
Allied Day Shelling Damage
Allied balloons [5] 1.02 1.04 1.06
Allied LBAS Damage
Allied balloons [6] 1.02 1.04 1.06
Enemy balloons [7] 0.95 0.90 0.85
  • The effect stacks up to 3 balloons, and up to 1 balloon per ship,
  • The effect applies to LBAS and day shelling, with the enemy balloons also negatively affecting allied LBAS,
  • The effect does not apply to torpedo phases or night battles,
  • If the ship deploying it is sunk, the balloon is then removed, as well as its effects.

Notes

How To Obtain

Updates History

  • 2023-08-26: Implemented

Fit Bonuses

Barrage Balloon/Bonuses

Improvement

See Also