how did generals in ww1 and ww2 deal with airplanes in case they didnt have effective means to counter the enemies planes?
>>65547119duck and cover
Planes in WW1 had limitations in visibly, they had to fly low to see who was who and that put them at range of rifle fire. This was somewhat true of WW2 as well, and by that point there were AA mounts for most of the infantry MGs, so there was always a way shoot back even if a unit didn't have access to dedicated AA assets.
>>65547119Well planes were mostly for recon, CAS wasn’t really a thing yet. So I mean they would try shooting at the plane with rifles or their machine guns but other than that there’s not much they could really do about it until they got their own planes to fight them or AA guns.
>>65547208They already had heavy bombers in WWI.
>>65547119cry on the radio
Idk, die i guess?
>hmmm what's a thought-provoking question to ask on this Mongolian throat singing image forum about weapons >"how do you deal with airplanes when you don't have any way to deal with airplanes?"I'm not mad at you OP. I'm just disappointed. I think we both know you could have done better. Tell you what, why don't you just delete this thread, and you can make a new thread with a question that isn't as blatantly fucking retarded, and we'll call it a mulligan and pretend this one didn't happen so you don't have to be embarrassed.
>>65550147Didn't those (the non-Zeppelin ones) only show up near the very end of the war?
>>65551106>>"how do you deal with airplanes when you don't have any way to deal with airplanes?"
>>65550147Only in the last few months of the war. And they weren't very heavy.
>>65550147"Heavy" bombers
>>65547208The Entente developed CAS doctrine during the war and troops were trained in directing CAS by using marker panels or flares to direct aircraft on station. This rarely worked out in the field because ground troops had to expose themselves to incoming fire in order to get the markers set up. During the battle of montfaucon US pilots tried to incentivize ground troops to direct them on target by throwing candy out at them when they made their attack passes on enemy positions. The US also developed a two-way radio that fit inside an aircraft or balloon that allowed plain speech transmission between both the crew and a ground receiver, but most pilots were untrained on it and would miss messages because they had the radio set to intercom mode to talk to each other and couldn't pick up the incoming traffic. The ground receivers were also bulky and hard to set up so they stayed behind the lines.
>>65547119RADIO
