Cika wannan jumla:
Rikicin Bosnia na 1908, Yakin Italiya da Turkiyya na 1911<unk>1912 da Yaƙe-yaƙe na Balkan na 1912<unk>1913 sun ƙara tashin hankali a Turai, wanda ya ga ɓarkewar manyan yankuna na Daular Ottoman. Wadannan rikice-rikicen sun ba da bayanan don babban shirin fadada sojan ruwa a Austria-Hungary, wanda ya sami goyon baya mai yawa a majalisun Austrian da na Hungary. Admiral Anton Haus, sannan Babban Kwamandan Sojojin Ruwa (German: "Marinekommandant") ya yi amfani da haɗarin yaƙi da abokin haɗin gwiwar Austria-Hungary, Italiya, don tura shirin gininsa. A ranar 5 ga Oktoba, 1913, Haus ya gabatar da sabon shirin gina shekaru biyar wanda ya bukaci manyan jiragen ruwa guda hudu don maye gurbin tsofaffi, da kuma masu bincike uku, masu hallaka shida, masu kula da kogin biyu, da kuma jirgin ruwa daya. Masu bincike a cikin wannan shirin za su kasance daga bisani su tsara zane na "Ersatz Zenta". Haus ya kiyasta kudin wannan shirin ya zama sama da miliyan 420 na krone. A matsayin wani ɓangare na shirin gininsa, rundunar sojan ruwa ta tsara don gina jiragen ruwa uku, kuma ta amince da wani shiri na sirri a ranar 12 ga Janairu, 1914, wanda ya bukaci a fara jirgin ruwa na farko a ranar 1 ga Yuli, 1914, sannan sauran biyu a ranar 1 ga Yuli, 1915. An tsara jirgin farko da za a kammala a ranar 31 ga Disamba, 1917, tare da na biyu da na uku a ranar 31 ga Disamba, 1918. A shekara ta 1919, ana sa ran dukkanin jiragen ruwa uku za su kasance cikakke kuma su shiga cikin Rundunar Sojan Ruwa na Austro-Hungary.