List of balloon uses

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This is a list of uses of balloons

• tiny
  • balloon catheter
• small (volume of a few litres)
  • toy balloon
  • Papier-mâché
  • balloon animal
  • decoration
  • solar balloon
  • balloon mail as part of a balloon flight competition or to spread information
  • Balloon helicopter
  • balloon rocket, demonstration of rocket propulsion
  • Ceiling balloon
  • Decoys accompanying ICBMs in midcourse, see also countermeasure
  • A vessel for storing nitrous oxide prior to inhalation for use as a recreational drug
• medium (volume of tens to thousands of litres)
  • free flying
    • transport of bombs (in World War II, FUGU-Balloon)
    • transport of propaganda (in World War II and in the Cold War)
    • Ceiling balloon
    • Weather balloon used with a Radiosonde
  • fixed
    • for carrying advertising signs
    • to carry antennae for LF and VLF, as for GQV transmitter in 2003
    • party balloon
  • other
    • balloon tires, for vehicles that require low ground pressures
• large (volume up to 12,000,000 litres)

• • free flying
    • lifting people, usually with a hot air balloon
    • airship, a steerable balloon
    • research balloon with instrumentation, also to carry telescopes
    • rockoon, a carrier for rockets.
    • balloon satellite for space research.
    • espionage balloon for military reconnaissance
    • Gas balloon
    • Hopper balloon
  • fixed
    • as manned observation post (before World War II)
    • barrage balloon
    • observation balloon for military reconnaissance
    • positioning atomic bombs for bomb tests in the atmosphere