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German Military Vehicles of World War II: An Illustrated Guide to Cars, Trucks, Half-Tracks, Motorcycles, Amphibious Vehicles and Others. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. Ltd. ISBN 9780786462520 .
Sidearms. Prilutsky M1914; Webley-Mars Automatic Pistol - commercial design from 1902; Submachine guns. Andrews M1917 [10] Chauchat-Ribeyrolles M1918 mitraillette pistolet; Frommer M1917 Stop doppel machinen pistole (Double barrel version) Standschütze Hellriegel M1915 machinen pistole (The Standschutze was the militia unit that was armed with it)
The 7.62 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/16.5 - was a German infantry support gun that mated the barrel, breech, and recoil mechanism of captured M1910s on a rugged one-piece box trail carriage built by Krupp. Large numbers of M1910's had been captured early in the war in Poland and Krupp was ordered to adapt them for German use.
The Langenhan pistol, officially known as the F.L. Selbstlader Cal. 7,65, is a German pistol, designed by Friedrich Langehan and used by German military men, and the police during World War I. The design of the pistol is also similar to the design of FN M1900 pistol. About 55,000 pistols were produced.
The M1879 Reichsrevolver, or Reichs-Commissions-Revolver Modell 1879 and 1883, were service revolvers used by the German Army from 1879 to 1908, when it was superseded by the Luger. [ 4 ] The two versions of the revolver differ in barrel length (The M1883 had a 5-inch barrel) and grip shape.
The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article discusses rifled shoulder arms developed in or for the military of the states that later became ...
German infantrymen towing the minenwerfer in 1918 German troops using the minenwerfer as an anti-tank gun in October 1918. The Russo-Japanese War of 1905 had shown the value of mortars against modern fieldworks and fortifications and the Germans were in the process of fielding a whole series of mortars before the beginning of World War I.
Thanks to this, the details of the gun's design and capabilities were considerably clarified. The gun was capable of firing a 106-kilogram (234 lb) [ 1 ] : 120 shell to a range of 130 kilometres (81 mi) and a maximum altitude of 42.3 km (26.3 mi) [ 1 ] : 120 —the greatest height reached by a human-made projectile until the first successful V ...