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Colt M1907 Army Special; Mannlicher M1901; ... Machine gun. Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. ... (Used by Portuguese forces on the Western Front)
38 cm SK L/45 "Max" (long range coast-defence gun and siege gun) 42 cm Gamma Mörser (siege gun) 42 cm kurze MK 14 L/12 (siege gun, also known as "Bertha") Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1904 (mountain gun) Gruson 5.3cm L/24 Fahrpanzer (mobile artillery turret) Krupp 3.7 cm L/14.5 Sockelflugzeugabwehrkanone (anti-aircraft gun) Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903 ...
MP 34 (German captured, used by gendarmerie and police forces) MP 40 (German captured) Sten submachine gun (British made, used by exiled Greek forces) Thompson M1928 and M1A1 (American made, used by exiled Greek forces) Makrykano M1943 (Greek made, used by exiled Greek forces) Rifles. Berthier M1892, M1892/16, M1907/15 and M1916 (French made)
Arditi (from the Italian verb ardire, 'to dare', and translates as "The Daring [Ones]") was the name adopted by a Royal Italian Army elite special force of World War I.They and the opposing German Stormtroopers were the first modern shock troops, and they have been called "the most feared corps by opposing armies".
Special bags designed to carry grenades replaced the old belts and ammunition pouches, and the standard Gewehr 98 rifle was replaced with the lighter Karabiner 98a previously used by cavalrymen. The stocked artilleryman's pistol/carbine, the 9mm Lange Pistole 08 , was also used in concert with an extended 32-round drum magazine to increase the ...
Much of this artillery was kept in service and used against German forces in the Battle of France in 1940 during World War II. [8] France did not develop heavy field artillery prior to World War I. Like the British Army , French forces suffered heavier casualties in trench warfare than their German enemies during the first years of the war due ...
From 1848 onward the gun was gradually introduced into Prussian service, then later into the military forces of many other German states. The employment of the needle gun radically changed military tactics in the 19th century. The needle gun first made its appearance in street fighting during the May Uprising in Dresden in 1849.
Australian forces involved in UN peacekeeping operations in Namibia, Western Sahara, and Cambodia used the M16A1 rifle well into the early 1990s. Light machine-gun. F1 Submachine Gun (9×19mm Parabellum) FN Minimi (5.56 calibre) Sterling Submachine Gun (9×19mm Parabellum) General-purpose machine guns. Bren Gun; M60 machine gun; FN MAG; MG3 ...