![]() ![]() The airfield was specially created to carry out the take off and landing. The pilot was captain Radul Mikov with spotter and bombardier Prodan Tarakchiev. the plane Albatros F-3 took off from an airfield near the village of Mustafa Pasha – present day Svilengrad, Bulgaria. In the morning of 29 October 1912 at 9:30 a.m. Historically, it was the first bombardment of a city from a heavier-than-air aircraft. Balkan War Īdrianople (presently Edirne) was bombed by Bulgaria in 1912 in the First Balkan War. Giulio Gavotti dropped 1.5 kg of bombs on Ain Zara, a village 8 km west of the capital Tripoli. The first ever air raid was conducted during the Italo-Turkish War by Italian forces against the Ottoman province of Libya on November 1, 1911. The balloons were launched from land and from the Austrian navy ship SMS Vulcano that acted as a balloon carrier, though the attack ended in failure as winds blew the balloons away, none reaching their intended target. In 1849, Austrian forces besieging Venice during the First Italian War of Independence launched some 200 incendiary balloons, each carrying a 24- to 30-pound bomb that was to be dropped from the balloon with a time fuse over the besieged city. ![]() In the 17th century, the forces of Thai king Phetracha tied gunpowder barrels to kites used for airborne assault. Walter de Milemete's 1326 De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum treatise depicts a group of knights flying kite laden with a black-powder filled firebomb over the wall of city. ![]() During the Song dynasty the Fire Crow, a kite carrying incendiary powder, a fuse, and a burning stick of incense was developed as a weapon. Incendiary kites were first used in warfare by the Chinese. A number of multilateral efforts have been made to restrict the use of aerial bombardment so as to protect non-combatants and other civilians.īefore World War I Kites The killing of civilians and non-combatants in bombed cities has variously been a deliberate goal of strategic bombing, or unavoidable collateral damage resulting from intent and technology. The development of aerial bombardment marked an increased capacity of armed forces to deliver ordnance from the air against combatants, military bases, and factories, with a greatly reduced risk to its ground forces. The bombing of cities grew to a vast scale in World War II and is still practiced today. The aerial bombing of cities is an optional element of strategic bombing, which became widespread in warfare during World War I. The remains of German town of Wesel after intensive Allied area bombing in 1945 near the end of World War II (a destruction percentage of 97% of all buildings). ![]()
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