Three days later, a report titled Report on Low-Altitude Diving Machine-Gun Strafing appeared before Governor-General Feslav.
Recording the course of battle and summarizing its gains and losses was an excellent tradition of the Austrian army—and a feature unique to the Austrian army in this era.
Recording the course of a war sounded simple, but it was not something just anyone could accomplish. At the very least, a country that had not completed compulsory education could never manage it.
The benefits of doing so were self-evident. Perhaps most of the recorded combat experience was repetitive nonsense, but as long as one-thousandth of it held value, it was already worth the effort.
This was especially important when it came to employing new weapons and equipment and exploring new tactics.
Thus, only army officers wrote reports, while in the newly minted air force, everyone had to write one.
Low-altitude dive bombing and low-altitude diving machine-gun strafing were not new terms. Similar concepts had already been proposed more than a decade ago.
Do not misunderstand—this had nothing to do with the great Emperor Franz. Franz might have been a military novice, but he also understood that however sound the military doctrines of later generations might be, they were built upon specific conditions.
Take dive bombing, for example. It was not merely a matter of flying low and dropping bombs. Not every aircraft possessed the ability to fly low and dive.
Even if an aircraft's performance met the requirements, exactly how low this low-altitude flight should be still had to be explored in actual combat.
While achieving results, they also had to ensure the safety of personnel and aircraft as much as possible. Otherwise, it would simply be a reincarnation of the Kamikaze Corps.
Therefore, the grand strategic vision of using airships for low-altitude diving