Trench warfare: It was one of the pure combat styles introduced in the WWI. Infantry rifles, rifled artillery and hydrolic recoil mechanisms, zigzag trenches and machine guns and their application had the effect of making it difficult or nearly impossible to cross defended ground. The hand grenade, already in existence, though crude, developed rapidly as an aid to attacking trenches.
Artillery: Anti aircraft guns were designed and proved to be very effective. The wire cutting no 106 fuse designed to explode when anyone came in contact with the barbed wire.
Poison gas: Germany had the most advanced technology.they first created chlorine gas bombs to produce a smoke screen before the troops later phosgene and mustard gas came into existence. The effectiveness was reduced with the invention of gas masks.
Railways: The railways proved an effecive way for the transportation of the ammunition. The germans had an effective network of rail lines. But the Britain designed the shell fire to wreck he trains.
Air warfare: Germans invented the interrupter gear by which a machine gun could be mounted on the propeller of the plane so that the pilot can fire directly.Manned observation baloons floating high above the trenches were used as stationary reconnaissance points on the front lines, reporting enemy troop positions and directing artillery fire.
Tanks: Based on the caterpillar track (first invented in 1770 and perfected in the early 1900s) and the four-stroke gasoline powered internal combustion engines (refined in the 1870s), early World war One tanks were fitted with Maxim type guns or Lewis guns, armor plating, and their caterpillar tracks were configured to allow crossing of an 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) trench.
Submarines: World War I was the first conflict in which submarines were a serious weapon of war. In the years shortly before the war, the relatively sophisticated propulsion system of diesel power while surfaced and battery power while submerged was introduced.
Flame throwers: The Imperial German Army deployed flame throwers on the Western Front attempting to flush out French or British soldiers from their trenches. Introduced in 1915, it was used with greatest effect during the Hooge battle of the Western Front on 30 July 1915.
Artillery: Anti aircraft guns were designed and proved to be very effective. The wire cutting no 106 fuse designed to explode when anyone came in contact with the barbed wire.
Poison gas: Germany had the most advanced technology.they first created chlorine gas bombs to produce a smoke screen before the troops later phosgene and mustard gas came into existence. The effectiveness was reduced with the invention of gas masks.
Railways: The railways proved an effecive way for the transportation of the ammunition. The germans had an effective network of rail lines. But the Britain designed the shell fire to wreck he trains.
Air warfare: Germans invented the interrupter gear by which a machine gun could be mounted on the propeller of the plane so that the pilot can fire directly.Manned observation baloons floating high above the trenches were used as stationary reconnaissance points on the front lines, reporting enemy troop positions and directing artillery fire.
Tanks: Based on the caterpillar track (first invented in 1770 and perfected in the early 1900s) and the four-stroke gasoline powered internal combustion engines (refined in the 1870s), early World war One tanks were fitted with Maxim type guns or Lewis guns, armor plating, and their caterpillar tracks were configured to allow crossing of an 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) trench.
Submarines: World War I was the first conflict in which submarines were a serious weapon of war. In the years shortly before the war, the relatively sophisticated propulsion system of diesel power while surfaced and battery power while submerged was introduced.
Flame throwers: The Imperial German Army deployed flame throwers on the Western Front attempting to flush out French or British soldiers from their trenches. Introduced in 1915, it was used with greatest effect during the Hooge battle of the Western Front on 30 July 1915.
