Russian aircraft of the First World War: the wings of the Russian Empire

The First World War, which became the greatest disaster of peoples, simultaneously initiated the development and improvement of many technical ideas, industrial undertakings and inventions. In the period from 1914 to 1918. Various types of new weapons appeared, among which aviation achieved the most amazing successes.
If a few years before the start of the war, piloted flights on devices were considered heavier experiments, and the issue of practical use of aircraft was not fully determined, then by 1918 the situation had changed dramatically - the number of armed airplanes in the world was calculated tens of thousands, Combat aviation formations were seen as the most important means of achieving success in any military conflict.
During the First World War, aircraft construction developed energetically in the Russian Empire. For several years, many aircraft manufacturing enterprises of Russia from separate semi -custaceous workshops have turned into full -fledged and fully equipped