Weapons used in the First World War

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Sub question:  What weapons were used in the trenches ?

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  • -Introduction

  • -Machine guns

  • -Rifles

  • -Pistols

  • -Gases

  • -Tanks

  • -Artillery

  • -Conclusion

Introduction:

Weapons are the most important thing in war. Each different country had their specific weapon but they all had some little things in common that made all the weapons look like each other. All countries had about the same weapons but with different names and some had some extra inventions so they could kill better. The weapons were more effective for defense than for offence especially in the trenches. It also was a bit a competition about who is going to produce the best weapons but also the war can be decided about this, also the amount of weapons manufactured by the factories in the countries could determine this. But I’ll start with the Machine guns.

Machine guns:

Machine guns were one of the main killers in the war. A single man almost had no chance against it. Machine guns could fire about 400-600 bullets per minute. The most guns used water cooling so that it would not over heat that easily. These weapons were used earlier and weren’t really new.  The British mainly used the “Vickers” and the “Lewis” guns. They didn’t expect that Germany would produce the guns that rapidly and weren’t aware but when Germany started producing the “Maxim” (Also known as the MG08) the British were                          The German Maxim 

out-gunned. When they knew this. they started to make more guns too. The machine guns needed a crew of about 6 men.  The French also had their own machine gun called the “Hotchkiss”. The machine guns were used in different machine guns posts (like forts or nests).

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Rifles:

These weapons were used mainly together with the pistol. It was not very heavy like the machine gun and could be taken with you easily it was accurate if you were well trained in it. It was only a single round gun so you couldn’t keep on shooting. For aiming it used an iron or optics (Sniper Rifles). The ...

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