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A trench raiding club Selection of clubs and a flail used on the Dolomites front. Trench raiding clubs, or trench maces were improvised melee weapons used by both the Allies and the Central Powers during World War I. [citation needed] Clubs were used during nighttime trench raiding expeditions as a quiet and effective way of killing or wounding ...
Garland trench mortar; Livens Projector; Newton 6-inch mortar; Stokes mortar; Vickers 1.57-inch mortar; Projectile weapons. Leach Trench Catapult; Sauterelle; West Spring Gun; Anti-aircraft weapons. Maxim QF 1-pounder pom-pom; QF 2-pounder naval AA gun (Sixteen guns) QF 12-pounder 12 cwt AA gun; QF 13-pounder Mk IV AA gun (Six guns) QF 13 ...
The Austro-Hungarian Army's answer to this need was the 3.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz M.15 which was based on the earlier 3.7 cm Gebirgskanone M.13 and soon after its introduction other nations introduced similar infantry support guns such as the French Canon d'Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 TRP, the Russian 37 mm trench gun M1915, and the German 3 ...
A7V Schutzengrabenbagger [4] 1918 (trench digger) A7V Sturmpanzerwagen [5] 1917 (heavy tank) A7V Uberlandwagen [6] 1917 (supply carrier) Benz-SAG BL10 panzerkraftwagen [citation needed] 1912 (armored truck) Büssing A5P [7] 1915 (armored car) Bussing Kraftzugwagen KZW 1800 1916 (gun carrier) Daimler Marienfelde ALZ 13 1913 (supply truck)
Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare.They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy.
The MPL-50 has a total length of 50 cm (20 in); the steel blade is 15 cm (5.9 in) wide and 18 cm (7.1 in) long. It is sharpened on its working edge and often on one side, for use as an axe. The wooden handle is not painted, but polished with sandpaper and fire singed to create a smooth surface that doesn't slide off the user's hand. [3]
Two M1917's at the American Armored Foundation Museum at Danville, Virginia. The Model 1917 featured a forged one piece nickel steel barrel with a semi-automatic vertical sliding wedge breech.
Modern British fire axes, war-time trench axes and even some tool axes have characteristics similar to boarding axes. [5] True boarding axes had heavy cutting blades that either broadly flared out at the edge or were single-flared. Some had langet straps to secure the blade, but others did not.