Barrage Balloons at Night?

[mind_messing]

Can someone verify if the reduced effectiveness of barrage balloons at night is WAD?

I've did some quick and dirty testing involving 4e bombers on a base with balloons present (as per this thread - fb.asp?m=2428858), and no other units. IOW, the only way that planes can be destroyed is due to flak or OPS - balloon losses are reported as flak losses in the CR.

I can verify that barrage balloons seem to work at night though the balloon messages do not appear in the replay as they do in daylight attacks.

This makes it very difficult to do any sort of proper empirical testing, but from limited sandbox tests, it appears that the occurrence of balloon collisions during night raids is vastly lower than in daylight raids. Appearances can be deceptive, and I intend to run more test when I can get the time/motivation.

Is this intended? To my thinking, it would be night attacks that would see balloons being most effective, seeing as they'd be harder to see than in the daylight.