Examine The Role Played By The Airplanes During The World War I Era

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Examine The Role Played By The Airplanes During The World War I Era.
The First World War took place between 1914 and 1918 after the assignation of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The war was between Australia, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, who fought against the United States, Japan, Russia, France, Romania, and Italy (Wilkins, 72). During this period, vast development happened in the aviation industry, and some countries, such as Germany, gained superiority over the others. The development of aviation was significantly contributed by the high investment that was made by most of the European federal governments (Bernard, 106). Before the start of the World War, the countries used observation balloons for surveillance. However, at the beginning of the war, the states were able to develop the first fighter planes. The first fighter plane was known as the reconnaissance aircraft.
Historically, the First World War was the first global war to use aircraft. A few years after the start of the war, these planes become the most effective weapons against enemies. The jets played a significant role in the management of coordination between the air troops and ground troops during war attacks (Herris, and Pearson, 16).This is because the airplanes had some installed devices which enabled the pilots to drop messages to the soldiers on the ground. These devices included message streamers and message drop bags. On September 9, 1914, there was a battle in Berlin, and the pilots used the message streamers to drop the messages to the military troops. This resulted in the superiority of the attackers (Wilkins, 64). However, the First World War aircrafts lacked some installed devices such as the radio sets that could be used to communicate with the ground troops to attack their enemies. This made them less effective. Hence they required the fighting countries to come up with innovations that could help them in coordinating their planned attacks.
The countries invented the reconnaissance cameras, which were more complex to enable the pilots to accurately record what was happening in the ground, and send it to the ground military forces for better attacks (Herris, and Pearson, 27). Luckily, in early 1915, the countries realized that the aerial reconnaissance camera was the most effective and installed it to the warplanes. The camera helped the air force to take clear photographs of their enemies, which helped them in performing the strategic bombing (Bernard, 68). Moreover, they installed the radio sets, which were used as the primary communication channels between the air force and the ground army. Better communication and surveillance contributed to better raids and defense. However, it is only Germany, Britain, and the United Kingdom had the capability of using them. Some countries like Russia remained behind due to their low developing technology.
By early1915, most of the aircraft had been renovated and had extravagant and archaic designs. This was a result of the ever-increasing war that forced the airplane builders to change quickly to meet the immediate needed improvements (Bernard, 8). At the start of World War 1, there was only one ...