Firepower Kills

Le feu tue (Firepower kills) Henri-Philippe Petain 1916 Verdun. World War 1 is often called the counterbalance modern war. During World War 1 umpteen impudently kinds of appliances and technology were invented and improved. Some of these weapons included tanks, chemical gases, grenades, and machine throttles.Chemical war was utilise for the showtime time on a gigantic home plate in World War I. many advancements were make during the war in the air, on the ground, and in the sea. World War 1 started by a conflict and was fought between countries that were equipped with modern weapons. Some of these weapons rose and were genuinely(prenominal) powerful like machine guns and others declined like bay adeptts.Both weapons and technology do a drastic impact on World War 1.Land battles were in the main fought on both the Western and easterly fronts. Soldiers were surrounded by recent technology and weapons that helped throughout the battlefield but also ca workd danger/death . Soldiers experience a great deal of hardship while fighting on the fronts.The western front consisted of small parts of Europe, most of the fighting took oer in France and Belgium. The eastern front was made up of battlefields in Eastern Europe, especially in Russia.But on the last day, an astonishing estimate of English field guns opened up on us with high-explosive, go ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered heavily and came fend for only fourscore strong (1.4). land war started by the use of mold guns.Machine guns were the first and most famous weapon employ in war, they ar claimed to be the most dangerous weapon because the killed numerous lives during the war. Machine guns were invented by the Ameri empennages, however, the mood was stolen by the Germans. Machine guns at the time could fire up to 500 rounds per minute, but they were very heavy and they were very heavy.They had to be used by well-trained men who knew how to setup a gun and operate it quickly.T anks were armoured steel plated, belt tired, and heavily armed combat vehicles. First use of tanks on a battlefield was the use of British mark 1 tank at the battle of flers courcelette in 1915.The French in short followed the idea and created Renault FT, which established the look of the tank we see today. The Germans never got to producing their own tanks in WW1. The only German design of war was the A7V.Flamethrowers were first invented by a German inventor named Richard Fiedler.The flamethrower was designed to be carried on soldiers backs. It had two tanks, i that carried flammable liquid and the other that carried propellant gas. The squeeze of the trigger would transmit shooting flammable liquid up to 18 meters a style, it was a weapon used to shoot big flames of fire against its enemies.It was used to burn soldiers and wooden obstacles such as bunkers. The Germans used these flamethrowers to attack much than 650 soldiers, mainly the British and French.Small bombs thrown b y hand or shot by a rifle attachment were called grenades/bombs. Germans are the ones who created and mostly used these grenades during the war.The British made their own model of a grenade but it needed more work. By the year of 1917, all troops were required to carry extra grenades to trance and hold them against their enemies.Poisonous gas was introduced by the Germans in 1915. It is toxic smoke that can be very deadly if inhaled by humankind.When the gas is inhaled it burns and liquidizes your lungs which causes death. If rear currents occurred while soldiers threw the gas at their enemies then it could easily be brought back to them and kill them. The only way to avoid the poisonous gas was to make up on a cloth and hold up to ur mouth and nose. However, over time gas mask kits were provided to the soldiers.Airplanes were very recent they were invented by the Wright brothers 11 years ago. Airplanes were simple machines, more like to birds than anything else. The first miss ions were carried out as an observation. Most airplanes at the time were slow/flimsy contraptions with barely sufficient power to lift a single buffer storage and perhaps one passenger.Airplanes technology developed throughout war they became very important/useful.At the plump-go of the war, most soldiers used the planes to spy on their enemies strategies. These planes usually carried a pilot and a photographer who would photograph the soldiers positions.The use of planes became very popular during the war, it became a crucial part of achieving victories. One of the first contributions in the war was at the first battle of Marne were reconnaissance planes spotted a gap in the German lines. The allies attacked the gap and were able to split the German soldiers and drive them back.Fighter planes came into the war when they wanted to stop the reconnaissance planes. With more planes in the skies, enemy pilots began to fight each other in the air. At first, they tried throwing grena des at each other or shooting with rifles and pistols. It was deceitful and it didnt work very well.Pilots soon found out that the best way to shoot down an enemy is to mount a machine gun to the plane. However, because the machine gun was mounted to the front of the plane the propeller would get in the way of the bullets. Soon a new invention called the interredur was invented by Anton Fokker, it allowed the machine gun to be synchronized with the propeller, all planes started using this invention.As the war progressed, both sides began to use airplanes to drop bombs on enemy locations.The first planes used for bombings were made by the Russians and could only carry small bombs and they were very powerless to attack from the ground. By the end of the war, faster long-range bombers were make that could carry much larger weight bombs.Germany used zeppelins to drop bombs on targets from far away.These were slow moving but could carry a large load of explosives. Zeppelins were filled with hydrogen, so a small spark could tout up the entire aircraft. Germans used these zeppelins to bomb London and eastern England. Germanys enemies, however, soon found that zeppelins, which were filled with hydrogen gas, quickly became raging infernos when hit by anti-aircraft guns (Spielvogel, McTighe, 331). As the war continued it became useless because of the fast fighter planes that were used.The battles at sea were known as naval battles. These battles mainly took place in the northern sea and the Atlantic. The wars were mainly between Britain and Germany. Britain was trying to stop Germany from travel or duty with the rest of the world across the north sea. that meant Germany could not receive important resources like food.Germany reacted by using u-boats to attack the ships that were trading and sending resources to Britain. Germany is the first one to create U-Boats and used them to destroy many enemy ships. U-Boats were dangerous and accurate. U-boat is an abbreviatio n of the German unterseeboot and is a equivalent word for submarine(Axelrod, 127).On September 1914, a U-Boat sank 3 British ships. In the U.S. U-boats turned its public opinion against Germany. This increased when Germany ordered a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, they sank every boat seen on the surface. This eventually made the U.S start sending ships into the war.Later on the British liner, Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat which carried innocent British and American civilians. Then on February 1, 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare effective, But on February 3, 1917, Germany stopped unrestricted submarine warfare.Britain, France, Russia and the U.S had all developed submarine forces in advance Germany began development on the U-Boats in 1906, but during WW1 submarines were associated with the Imperial German Navy, which used the submarines to try to bridge the gap in naval strength because it struggles compared to Britains kinglike Navy.Longer-rang e U-boats were developed and torpedo quality improved during the war. Submarines could strike long bombs from at a lower place the waves with torpedoes but also surfaced them to use as their deck gun.An unsuccessful post-war apparent motion was made to ban submarine warfare.Torpedoes are self-propelled missiles that can be launched from submarines or ships, or dropped into the sea from the undercarriage of planes.The first torpedoes were produced in the 1870s, it ran on blind drunk air and was slow and inaccurate. By 1914 German torpedoes could travel at up to 75 kilometers per hour over a range of several miles. This gave German U-boats a deadly advantage over the Allied ships. As the war progressed the British made rapid advances in torpedoes and sank at least 18 German U-boats with them.Mines were large explosive bombs planted electric resistance, they were either remotely actuate or by the impact of the soldiers footsteps. Navies also used sea mines which floated on the oce an and exploded when in contact with ships. Trench soldiers often cut into tunnels to plant huge mines under enemy trenches and positions.One example of an hap occurred at Hill 60 during the Battle of Messines (June 1917) where Australian tunneling specialists exploded 450,000 kilograms of underground explosives, killing thousands of German troops.So it is clear that although the war was very deadly it relieve inherited many new weapons and technologies that helped throughout the war.Weapons and new technology rightfully did affect the war it changed many lives, it brought innovation, creativity, and originality. WW1 weapons and technology proved to other countries who fought that humans will adapt to difficult environments and strategies that come by.