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![]() Although there are several descriptions of Austrian forces besieging Venice using gunpowder bombs carried by balloons, the first air raid was conducted in 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War by Italian forces against the Ottoman province of Libya.
Here's what the author thought of this mode of warfare:
It was further stipulated between the signatory powers that the punishment meted out to any violator of this solemn treaty would be in the same kind as its offending. In other words, a nation that employed the use of ærial warships and practiced the horrible system of dropping from great heights heavy charges of high explosives upon cities, fleets or shipping, would be wiped out from the face of the earth and annihilated by the same methods of destruction.
George Griffith gives an earlier description in his 1893 novel The Angel of the Revolution - see War-Balloon (Navigable Aerostat). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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