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The machine gun emerged as a decisive weapon during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general.
Edged weapons. Kukri knife (Used by Gurkha regiments) M1907 bayonet; ... The Machine Gun: History, Evolution and Development of Manually Operated, Full Automatic, ...
Bergmann MG 15 (water cooled version heavy machine gun); Bergmann MG 15nA (air cooled version light machine gun); Gast M1917; Madsen M1902; Maxim machine gun; MG 18 TuF (heavy anti-tank and anti-aircraft machine gun)
Chemical weapons were deployed by all major belligerents throughout the war, inflicting approximately 1.3 million casualties, of which about 90,000 were fatal. [259] The use of chemical weapons in warfare was a direct violation of the 1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases and the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare , which ...
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Long barrel recoil technology placed the gun within a barrel that included a system to absorb the momentum from firing the gun, allowing the weapon to remain stationary when it was fired. [ 3 ] The German General Staff had learned from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) the importance of heavy artillery in destroying enemy guns and positions ...
The film explores how war can turn a man's moral compass from pacifism to warmonger. D, A S 1933 US After Tonight: George Archainbaud: A Russian spy and an Austrian captain fall in love during WW1. R S 1933 US Ever in My Heart: Archie Mayo: Romance and espionage in WW1 D, R A, S 1934 US The Lost Patrol: John Ford: Remake of Lost Patrol: A, D N ...