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media type="youtube" key="VD89Z0_Rav8" width="339" height="280" The flamethrower was a brutal wepon for killing enemys of the us this wepon was very efective against the opposing enemy. Many flamethrowers were being built into tanks and were used with no mercy. The flamethrowers were very vunurable to enemy fire because of the exsposed feul tanks. The team operating the flamethrower consisted of a gunner who maned and operated the flamethrower, then there was two men who protecting the exsposed fuel tanks from enemy fire. These men were responsible for making sure that the gunner and the fuel tanks and gunner were not shot from enemy fire.



the maxim machine gun was one of the first machine guns to be used by the millitary in ww1. this machine gun killed 5000 wariors with only 4 of these machine guns and was considerd heavy artilary. This gun was very heavy and took a six man team to operate this gun. another efective nachine gun in ww1 was the gatling gun wich had six barells on a revolving frame and fired 1200 rounds a minute. And later had a 10 barell model made. the vickers gun could fire 600 rounds a minute at 4500 yards.

airplanes of ww1 were usually biplanes. these planes carried four bombs underneath the hull. planes could either carry an observer or a o load of bombs. they did not devolope a lare plane to carry many bombs and defend itself from enemy fire yet. the first bomber used in war was the voisin developed by the french. the engines horsepower differd from the engines in the plane. because of its steal frame it was considired a rouged plane.



barbed wire was niknamed the devil rope beacause it was very harmfull if you were to get caught in it in trench warefare they use the devils rope a a berier just before the trenches.

in ww1 anti vehicle land mines were used to destroy enemy vehicles and to kill enemy soldiers these were efective against tanks and vehicles. they were either trigerd by sound or presure. they protected camps or key locations. these were put in war zones in large qauntites. there were anti personal mine that were smaller to kill soldiers.

howitzers were considerd heavy artilery and only had a few of them in the feild. mortars were used in trench warefare and were very efective. depending on the size of the charge would determine the distance of the shell. there were diferent types of mortars there were anti aircraft mortars and anti tank mortars.



submarines used in ww1 were usually small so they were used for costal missions butt the navy adopted the u-boats from the dutch these submarines could carr 700 tons of cargo and keep a speed of 12-13 knots. these u-boats had guns on its deck and torpedo tubes. these were used for combat in the war.



the first tanks were derived from farm vehicles and use a set of catipillar tracks to move these tanks werew very slow and not heavely armored. these were desighned for fighting trenches. these could penetrate barbed wire. these tanks could cross n 8 foot gap and turn very sharply and could cover a 20 mile raidius.

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