List of balloon uses

This is a list of uses of balloons

*tiny
**balloon catheter
*small (volume of a few litres)
**toy balloon
**Water bomb
** 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