Air Ministry

The Air Ministry initially produced a abrogating report, possibly because the Ministry of Aircraft Production acquainted balloons would be abortive weapons and would use up too abounding resources. However, the Admiralty took up the abstraction with added enthusiasm. They assured balloons had the advantages of getting low amount and not agreement British cadre at risk. The architecture of the German ability filigree fabricated it accessible to accident by short-circuit. Ample areas of ache backwoods and heathland in Germany fabricated the countryside accessible to accidental damaging advance and the Germans would be affected to accredit ample numbers of humans to the assignment of blaze watching, possibly breach them from added advantageous war-work. Furthermore, apprehension aloft 16,000 anxiety tended to draft from west to east, authoritative it harder for the Germans to retaliate with agnate balloons.4