Later on a Dutch airplane manufacturer founded in Germany, had invented a mechanism that made it possible to shoot through the propellers. This machine-mechanism got included in the Fokker planes, which especially made for air-combat. This mechanism mounted on the Fokker planes, ruled the air when it got released in 1915.
The fact that the pilots were able to shoot straight forward gave them a great advantage, against the slower recon planes with handguns and grenades. And as time proceeded, in 1916 the British fought back with their copied synchronisation tools for their airplanes. But despite the technology they could still not beat the German Fokker’s. Due to the fact that the Germans had more experience, and more agile planes. There is evidence for this when we look at the statistics from “The Bloody April” where we see that the British lost 245 aircrafts, whilst the Germans lost 66 of theirs.
Aircrafts were not the only “old” technology that got rapidly used throughout the war, trenches were one of them. The trench-warfare played a huge role in the war, since the way you were equipped influenced you in the way you would fight in the trenches. The fact that the trenches were actually open holes made air-planes quite valuable. When it came to positioning and planning.
The rules of trench warfare got further changed when portable machineguns got introduced. That actually made holding ground easier, because of the fact that the gun had a such great power when it came to destruction, since it needless to say had an high output of bullets.
Tools like the machinegun created so-called deadlocks, in this case prevent the Germans to further proceed into the allies territory. The Germans therefore took use of poison gas, despite the fact that it had been banned in the Hague convention in 1899. The users of the poison gas, often came prepared with a gas mask so that they would not come to inhale their own weapon. What who made poison gas, in this case chlorine gas so dangerous and effective, was that it had the appearance of the non-lethal smoke gas. So the British in this case was not afraid of inhaling in, because of its appearance. All in all after the British started to use it, it was what killed of the most people during the war 1.000.000 people.
What other tools who had great effect on the trenches were the artillery. That was greatly aided by the air-planes who provided locations to shoot. The British mortars prevented the Germans from advancing several times by exploding their soldier-filled trains. It did also go the other way around where several deadlocks broke due to unanticipated fire.
At last comes the tank who at the start of the war was fairly unreliable, and had been invented in 1890, but because of tendency to break down at random it was not used. And in the start of the war, the tank accomplished to scare the Germans and later became representative to a massive force that made the trenches obsolete.
Because of the tanks destructive power it could take a heavy beating by guns while running through barbed-wire without hesitation. And as if this was not enough, it had the ability to function as a portable bunker impenetrable bunker.
My final conclusion is that the technical advancement aided both parts in their battle, but what decided the war in the end was overextension of the triple ententes army.
