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A Fu-Go , or fire balloon , was a weapon launched by Japan during World War II. A hydrogen balloon with a load varying from a 15 kg antipersonnel bomb to one 12-kilogram incendiary bomb and four 5 kg incendiary devices attached, it was designed as a cheap weapon intended to make use of the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean and drop bombs on American and Canadian cities, forests, and farmland.The Japanese fire balloon was the first ever weapon possessing intercontinental range . The Japanese balloon attacks on North America were at that time the longest ranged attacks ever conducted in the history of warfare, a record which was not broken until the 1982 Operation Black Buck raids during the Falkland Islands War. The balloons were intended to instill fear and terror in the U.S., though the bombs were relatively ineffective as weapons of destruction due to extreme weather conditions.
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