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Nov 13, 2014 · The 5 Deadliest Guns of Modern War. While everyone oohs and aahs over nuclear weapons, submarines and stealth fighters, modern wars usually involve infantries on the ground—and they need guns....
- WW1 Rifles
- WW1 Machine Guns
- WW1 Flamethrowers
- WW1 Mortars
- WW1 Artillery
- WW1 Poison Gas
- WW1 Tanks
- WW1 Aircraft
- WW1 Submarines
All nations used more than one type of firearm during the First World War. The rifles most commonly used by the major combatants were, among the Allies, the Lee-Enfield .303 (Britain and Commonwealth), Lebel and Berthier 8mm(France), Mannlicher–Carcano M1891, 6.5mm (Italy), Mosin–Nagant M1891 7.62 (Russia), and Springfield 1903 .30–06 (USA). The Ce...
Most machine guns of World War 1 were based on Hiram Maxim’s1884 design. They had a sustained fire of 450–600 rounds per minute, allowing defenders to cut down attacking waves of enemy troops like a scythe cutting wheat. There was some speculation that the machine gun would completely replace the rifle. Contrary to popular belief, machine guns were...
Reports of infantry using some sort of flame-throwing device can be found as far back as ancient China. During America’s Civil War some Southern newspapers claimed Abraham Lincoln had observed a test of such a weapon. But the first recorded use of hand-held flamethrowers in combat was on February 26, 1915, when the Germans deployed the weapon at Ma...
Mortars of World War I were far advanced beyond their earlier counterparts. The British introduced the Stokes mortar design in 1915, which had no moving parts and could fire up to 22 three-inch shells per minute, with a range of 1,200 yards. The Germans developed a mortar (minenwerfer, or “mine thrower”) that had a 10-inch barrel and fired shells l...
The 20th century’s most significant leap in traditional weapons technology was the increased lethality of artillery due to improvements in gun design, range and ammunition‚—a fact that was all too clear in the Great War, when artillery killed more people than any other weapon did. Some giant guns could hurl projectiles so far that crews had to take...
On April 22, 1915, German artillery fired cylinders containing chlorine gas in the Ypres area, the beginning of gas attacks in the First World War. Other nations raced to create their own battlefield gases, and both sides found ways to increase the severity and duration of the gases they fired on enemy troop concentrations. Chlorine gasattacked the...
Ideas for “land battleships” go back at least as far as the Medieval Era; plans for one are included among the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. The long-sought weapon became reality during the First World War. “Tank” was the name the British used as they secretly developed the weapon, and it stuck, even though the French simultaneously developed the ...
The air war of World War I continues to fascinate as much as it did at the time. This amazing new technology proved far more useful than most military and political leaders anticipated. Initially used only for reconnaissance, before long planes were armed with machine guns. Once Anthony Fokker developed a method to synchronize a machine gun’s fire ...
Britain, France, Russia and the United States of America had all developed submarine forces before Germany began development of its Unterzeeboats (Undersea boats, or U-boats)in 1906, but during World War I submarines came to be particularly associated with the Imperial German Navy, which used them to try to bridge the gap in naval strength it suffe...
Oct 5, 2020 · The Great War brought a lot of firearm technological engineering. We go over some of the most famous rifles, machine guns, and pistols of WW1.
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- AK-47. So to make up for the lack of specifically North Vietnamese weapons on this list, let’s start with one. North Vietnamese troops may not have had the same uniformity as the US and our allies, but they did have support from China and the Soviet Union, both of whom provided the North Vietnamese with weapons.
- M14. Early in the war, the opposite side was using the M14. The M14 became the US military’s standard-issue rifle in 1959. It was intended to replace several different auto and semi-auto rifles that the US military had been using.
- M16. To deal with the M14’s shortcomings, the M16 and XM16E1 was introduced in 1964. First, there are several versions of the M16 in Vietnam — the M16 was adopted by the Airforce in small numbers, the XM16E1 was the mass issued rifle early in the war but was replaced by the M16A1 in 1967.
- M1 Carbine. The M1 Carbine predated even the M14 and continued to be widely used by the US Military even alongside the M14 up until the adoption of the M16 in 1964.
The combination of 20th-century weapons and 19th-century tactics made World War I especially deadly. Learn more about the weapons used in World War I.
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Nov 8, 2011 · Atomic Weapons, 1945 From their first use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic weapons revolutionized warfare at the strategic level. Fission and, later, fusion bombs were the ultimate “force multipliers,” capable of reducing a city to ashes with a single strike.
World War I is often considered the first true ‘modern war’, a conflict fought between industrialised countries equipped with modern weapons. It saw the rise of powerful weapons such as heavy artillery, machine guns and airplanes – and the decline of 19th century weapons like sabres and bayonets.
