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Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military or strategic purpose that is conducted using reconnaissance aircraft. The role of reconnaissance can fulfil a variety of requirements including artillery spotting , the collection of imagery intelligence , and the observation of enemy maneuvers.
Reconnaissance was widely perceived as the only practical use of airplanes. A French balloon observer, 1918. While most of the combatant countries possessed a few military aircraft in August 1914, these were almost exclusively devoted to reconnaissance and artillery spotting, supplementing well-tried and familiar platforms like balloons and kites.
Ju 88A over France, 1942. Despite a considerable technological and numerical head start, Germany gradually neglected aerial reconnaissance, at least relative to Britain.The reason, grounded in history and geography, was that Germany had no strategic bombing doctrine and viewed air power as an auxiliary of land armies.
This book covers the handling of prisoners in great detail, but it falls short of a history of intelligence in the Falklands War, and so may disappoint readers expecting that. Publishing details: Van der Bijl, Nick (2020). My Friends, The Enemy: Life in Military Intelligence During the Falklands War. Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing.
L'Entreprenant at the Battle of Fleurus (1794). Balloons and kites were the first inventions used in aerial warfare and their primary role was reconnaissance.Balloons provided a reliable and stable means of elevating an observer high over the battlefield to obtain a birds-eye view of troop positions and movements.
Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance carried out by aircraft (of all types including balloons and uncrewed aircraft). The purpose is to survey weather conditions, map terrain, and may include military purposes such as observing tangible structures, particular areas, and movement of enemy forces.
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374605162. Kaiser, Charles (9 October 2022). "Waging a Good War review: compelling military history of the civil rights fight". The Guardian. Asselin, Pierre (2018). Vietnam's American War: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge ...
O-57 Grasshopper at the National Museum of the United States Air Force A de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI (F-8) of the 654th BS, Eighth Air Force at RAF Watton, 1944 North American B-25D (F-10) Mitchell photographic reconnaissance and mapping aircraft North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial No 42-103368 of the 15th TRS at St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.