After Australasia entered the war, France immediately placed a large number of aircraft orders with Australasia.
There was no other way. In the current European War, aside from the normal consumption of bullets and shells, aircraft losses were also enormous.
Before the outbreak of this war, all the countries of Europe combined possessed no more than 3,000 aircraft.
But now, Germany alone had already surpassed 3,000 aircraft, to say nothing of Italy, France, and the United Kingdom, which each had more than a thousand aircraft as well.
Although the exact numbers of aircraft held by each country were unknown, it was certainly possible that their combined total was close to 10,000.
In the war that had broken out in Europe, even the fighting between Germany and the Franco-Belgian forces in Belgium and France resulted in two-digit numbers of aircraft crashing every day.
If the aircraft of both sides encountered each other in large numbers, the number of planes shot down could even multiply several times over.
However, with the war having reached this point, the countries no longer felt much pain over aircraft being destroyed. Compared with the aircraft themselves, they cared far more about whether the pilots inside them survived after a crash.
It did not matter if an aircraft was damaged; the pilot could simply fly another one as usual. But if the pilot was gone, training an excellent replacement was extremely difficult.
Even an ordinary pilot needed several months of training to go from knowing nothing to becoming qualified.
But the current European War clearly would not give the countries that much time to train pilots. Therefore, the air forces of every country had formed an open understanding: pilots were far more important than aircraft.
Besides carrying out normal reconnaissance missions, large numbers of reconnaissance planes also