Category:War in the Air

From DocuWiki

Balloons and airplanes were first used mainly to carry observers. By 1915 photographs of enemy positions were being taken from airplanes. Anthony Fokker, improving on a French device, developed a machine gun for the Germans that was synchronized to fire through the whirling propeller of a flying plane. Air power has since become an increasingly powerful element of military campaigns with air superiority as a necessity.