plan for air warfare
- Created by: jwizz
- Created on: 13-06-16 21:34
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- how far did the methods of air warfare change in the years 1939 - 1992?
- WW2
- Blitzkrieg
- nearly full control over air in France and Poland
- stuka bombers
- support ground troops give maximum terror
- Dunkirk
- RAF protected waiting troops + escort vehicles
- D-Day
- bombed nmormandy
- disrupt communications and slowd own reinforcements
- bombed Calais
- convince Hitler the invasion would be there
- bombed nmormandy
- bombing
- warsaw - final surrender of Poland
- Rotterdam - Dutch government
- Battle of Britain 1940
- before Germans could invade they had to have control over the airspace
- dogfights - continuity WW1 air aces
- Why did the british win?
- better planes - supermarine spitfire, hurricane
- radar - 1930s
- track and intercept German planes
- concentrate defence where it was needed
- hadn't had that advantage before - change
- couldn't be caught unawares like Poland
- brits were higher up than germans when they arrived so wom more dogfights
- Britain kept air control so Hitler couldn't ever invade
- before Germans could invade they had to have control over the airspace
- 1st Blitz
- bombing of civillians - change
- 2nd Blitz
- Vengance weapons - change
- rocket powered, no powered - change
- developed V1 to V2
- Vengance weapons - change
- bombing of germany
- bombing civilians - continuity
- Blitzkrieg
- Developments after 1945
- planes fly faster, higher and can carry nuclear weapons
- USA observation plan spying on soviet union
- air to air guided missiles
- manoverable air attack, fly under the radar
- 6 day war
- surprise attack destroyed 300 aircraft on the ground
- continuity of blitzkrieg
- decided the outcome on the first day of the war
- Syrian and Jordanian air forces destroyed
- control over the sky within 2 days so could concentrate on land because no air attacks
- surprise attack destroyed 300 aircraft on the ground
- Vietnam
- air power not decisive against guerilla tactics
- operation rolling thunder
- continuity old carpet bombing
- from WW2
- unsucessful
- didn't stop VC supplies
- $400 000 to kill on VC
- continuity old carpet bombing
- Chemical weapons
- napalm
- dropped in bombs by planes
- agent orange
- sprayed by planes
- napalm
- search and destroy - helicopters
- effective to support gound troops
- partially effective for killing VC
- 1st Gulf war
- extensive ariel bombing
- stealth bombers
- USA were first
- war decided by conventional tactics and weapons
- only wom by 500 000 ground troops pushing the Iraqi army across the border
- WW2
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