WS-124A Flying Cloud

WS-124A Flying Cloud
Role Bomb balloon
National origin United States
First flight 8 October 1954
Primary user United States Air Force
Number built 41
Developed from Project Moby Dick

Weapon System 124A, given the codename Flying Cloud, was a project of the United States Air Force to use high-altitude balloons to deliver bombs and weapons of mass destruction on enemy targets. Tested in late 1954, the project was found to be unfeasible from the standpoint of accuracy, and the project was terminated the following year.