CAPRONI Ca.5 The Caproni Ca.5 was an Italian heavy bomber of the World War I and the postwar era. It was the final version of the series of aircraft that began with the Caproni Ca.1 in 1914. By late World War I, developments in aircraft technology made older bomber designs unable to penetrate targets defended by modern fighters. Caproni’s response to this problem was to significantly uprate the power on the existing Ca.3 design, with some versions of the Ca.5 eventually carrying engines with nearly five times the total power…