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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-pounder 9 cwt AA gun; QF 13-pounder 6 cwt AA gun
The artillery of World War I, improved over that used in previous wars, influenced the tactics, operations, and strategies that were used by the belligerents. This led to trench warfare and encouraged efforts to break the resulting stalemate at the front. World War I raised artillery to a new level of importance on the battlefield.
Mk X guns were mounted in the following ships which served throughout World War I: Lord Nelson-class battleships, laid down 1905, completed 1908; Battleship HMS Dreadnought, laid down 1905, completed 1906; Invincible-class battlecruisers, laid down 1906, completed 1908–1909; Bellerophon-class battleships, laid down 1906, completed 1909
The Charge of the Light Brigade, a charge of British light cavalry against a larger Russian force, was made famous because of Lord Tennyson's poetic retelling of the events. Charge of the Light Brigade (October 25, 1854) at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. Due to faulty orders a tiny force of 670 British light cavalrymen charged an ...
The weapons were designed to be dropped from an aircraft. They contained no explosive charge but as they fell they developed significant kinetic energy making them lethal and able to easily penetrate soft cover such as jungle canopy, several inches of sand or light armor. [2] [3] World War I air dropped flechettes, probably French
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
[8] [9] A typical World War I 3-inch (76 mm) field gun shell at its maximum possible range traveling at a velocity of 250 feet/second, plus the additional velocity from the shrapnel bursting charge (about 150 feet per second), would give individual shrapnel bullets a velocity of 400 feet per second and an energy of 60 foot-pounds (81 joules ...
The World Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles. London: Anness Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0754833512. Kempf, Peter, Landships II; Lepage, Jean-Denis G. G. (2014). German Military Vehicles of World War II: An Illustrated Guide to Cars, Trucks, Half-Tracks, Motorcycles, Amphibious Vehicles and Others.