Revolution of Airplanes on warfare

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I have to do a project for skool, about how airplanes revolutionized warfare. Does anyone have any info about that, or how one aircraft revolutionized how the air war was fought in ww1? I heard somewhere that a few British recon planes sighted German movement, and possible saved the war. Is that true?

 

[Emperor of Europe]

Originally posted by Calvin
I have to do a project for skool, about how airplanes revolutionized warfare.

Wouw! Anything less than a library full wouldn't be able to even scratch the surface of that question.
A good beginning might be to look at the way observation balloons were used in the American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian war of 186? and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
Then take it from there...

Regards,

EoE

 

[Sir James]

Apparently, the French/British were able to respond to German movement at the Battle of the Marne, due to air observation.

All this and more...
http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2000/1/century_of_warfare_1/index2.phtml

 

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If you really want to blow your teacher away, write about the British attempt to police the Iraqi mandate soley through airpower. I read about it in "A Peace to end All Peace."

 

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You can always talk about the Sopwith Camel ,in my opinion the airplane that was a major symbol of World war I and by so the symbol of the fisrt areal warfare.
You can always talk about the Fokker DrI, or how battles were faught in the air.
Speak also of the first air aces like AlbertBall, And Manfrend von Richtofen ,the red baron, and many other.

 

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And Lothar von Richthofen, Boelcke, Udet and their allied counterparts. Tech development under the pressure of war and enemy advances in technology. Invention and failure.

 

[TeutonicKnight]

How aircraft revolutionized warefare, in my opinion, can be summed up in three four parts.

1) Airplanes assured that there would never be another war on such a scale as WW1 where trenchs lined the ground.

2) Power could be projected by transporting men to and from the battle faster, or be used to insert forces, IE; The German paratroop drop on the inpregnable the Belgian Fort Eben Emael. This also, for the most part, makes the defender keep troops back instead of all on frontline duty.

3) The economical and population centers, so crucial to a full scale war effort, are no longer safe and can just as easily be targeted as the frontline soldier.

4) Airplanes could act as artilliary with even more deadly accuracy and vanish just as fast as it appeared.

 

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Originally posted by TeutonicKnight
How aircraft revolutionized warefare, in my opinion, can be summed up in three four parts.

1) Airplanes assured that there would never be another war on such a scale as WW1 where trenchs lined the ground.

2) Power could be projected by transporting men to and from the battle faster, or be used to insert forces, IE; The German paratroop drop on the inpregnable the Belgian Fort Eben Emael. This also, for the most part, makes the defender keep troops back instead of all on frontline duty.

3) The economical and population centers, so crucial to a full scale war effort, are no longer safe and can just as easily be targeted as the frontline soldier.

4) Airplanes could act as artilliary with even more deadly accuracy and vanish just as fast as it appeared.

Good line of thinking...and yes that was the true aereal revolution on warfare.

There you have Calvin...

 

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thanks

 

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Did the project went well, Calvin?