Timeline for How would medieval/Renaissance-era castles protect themselves from air raids?
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| Nov 20, 2019 at 15:49 | comment | added | toolforger | Your answer has an incorrect assumption: That air transport obsoletes land transport. This simply is not true given the constraints stated in the question (and it is not even true today even though air transport has become much more powerful). There's civilian transport, but even military transport, given the question's limitations, is not going to be useful for a full-scale invasion (but good enough for quick raids, so now border castles aren't sufficient anymore, a defender has to fortify a much wider border zone). | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 8:56 | comment | added | Kaloyan | Thanks for the very elaborate answer. You took my premise and evolved it into bigger, strategic-level considerations, which is precisely (one of) the type(s) of answer I was looking for. Cheers ! | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 5:50 | comment | added | Thucydides | The OP stipulates that airships are common, so while a single airship by itself isn't an issue, there is the ability to mass and deliver a fairly significant force, or create a useful logistical tail not tethered to roads or rivers. It is the ability of large numbers of airships which renders large fixed fortifications obsolete | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 20:56 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | I feel like this answer runs quite a bit further ahead than is supported by the OP's description of the airship's limitations. They're only carrying 10-20 men, and not very quickly at that. Additionally, 200 meters of height isn't enough to pass unnoticed and/or unmolested by troops on the ground. Even for the purpose of inserting small groups of troops behind enemy lines, you can do that MORE effectively on foot or on horseback than you can using something that small and slow. | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 20:37 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 4.0 |