Interesting, being from the western U.S. I'd only heard of Japanese fire balloons before. Not surprising that other combatants tried the same concept.

See https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/bs-md-jl...

I think the hacker name for physically attacking power lines is 'darkening'

Short lived, in Europe. Never really took off. And mostly wire and a rock.

I wonder if this would be easier today with conductive mylar.

Big thing is (present day) you blow a fuse. So it's not total infrastructure destruction.

"In the opening days of Desert Storm, modified tomahawk cruise missiles were used against Iraq. The warheads were made up of bomblets that contained spools of carbon fiber wire"

https://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-weapon-that-d...