Military investment during World War II drove aviation forward through the invention of streamlined cantilever monoplane. The Engine power and performance of the aircraft increased steadily, as jet and rocket engines began to make their appearance at the end of the war. Two pieces of technology that brought an effect on world war 2 in the aviation history of World War II were the Radar and Bombsights which played a significant role in the defensive and offensive strategies of all the countries involved. It is often referred to as the weapon that would affect and win the war, an invention that would change the world (“Radar”).
The radar technology, for example, allowed land bases to detect incoming aircraft and direct their anti-air defenses to the incoming aircraft's direction and further used as an offensive strategy by the aircraft attacking targets at night and during inclement weather. The development of the bombsight technology became another strategic weapon. The bombsight technology enabled accurate bombing runs and precise targeting for military and industrial locations.
The strategies were successful where Allied strategic bombing was the most deadly form of economic warfare ever devised and showed another side of the indiscriminateness of industrial war.
