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Land Mines are not much money easy to assemble and hard to locate which makes them very dangerous. a land mine clams 500 victims each week . land mines really didn't develop until world war 2 and weren't used much during world war 1 cannons nicknamed the big guns of the great war were very powerful. They could fire a shell over a very long arc and typicaly always hits the enemy head on. The first attack was used by the germans to advace through begum in the summer of 1914.

Air crafts become very dangerous and very useful. aircraft development increased immensely during the time of the war when France war in war with Germany the french had a little over 140 air crafts then four years later became 4500. The fighter plains were experimented on by putting machine guns on them. The first few times failed because of the weight it put on the noise of the plain and it crashed. The name of the people doing the experiments are named Vickers. Louis Strange made a safety strap allowing the pilot of his tractor driven Avro 504 to rotate the gun and fire all around him. fighter air craft is the more aggressive kind of aircraft but the were made for defense. Bomber plains have to use strategy to use there bombs well. the main reason for the bomber is to provide aid the the ground, to transport supplies and, transportation. The 1914 machine gun which was usually in a tripod required 4 to 6 men to operate. they thought they could fire 400-600 small-calibre rounds per minute but that was a theory which by the time the war ended it was double that. They each weighed around 30kg-60kg without their mountings, carriages and, supplies. the only down side is they would over heat and become useless for a while without cooling mechanisms.



barbed wire war like a defense system. If the enemy was attacking the barbed wire would stop them from escaping. Another word for this is a wiring party. you would insert a wire 6 feet above the trench barbed wire was and still is very strong. The barbed wire also prevented the lobbing of grenades. Near the end of world war 1 the submarine was released. The German deutschlands were each 315 feet long with two large cargo compartments they could carry up to 700 tons of cargo at 12-13 knot speeds. The standard submarine is 200 feet long and displaced less than 1,000 tons on the surface. The submarine is usefully armed with self propelling torpedoes. The submarines were electronically engined.

The earliest flame thrower dated as far back as 5th century b.c. In world war 1 they were more sophisticated. The smaller flamethrower caller the flamenwerfer was used by throwing pressurized air and carbon dioxide or nitrogen it then belched forth a stream of burning oil for as much as 18 meters. The German name for it was kleinflammenwerfer. In October of 1914 the flamethrower was used for the first time and created chaos for the enemy. The casualty from that attack were 31 officers and 751 solders. No one person invented the tank. The people involved in making the tank were Richard Edgeworth(he created the caterpillar),Nikolaus August Otto the inventor of the (Internal Combustion Engine), and a tractor invented by the Holt company. Track in fact the first design of the tank was in the 18th century and the design was called the land ship. the first combat tank was used in the war in 1916. Because of this tank and the machine gun designed on it, it captured 10000 Germans, 123 guns, and 281 machine guns.



​ Mustard Gas is a gas that kill you by melting your inside lung. To warn the attack of mustard gas the guard would use a modern day noise maker for the new year. he would sound the alarm to tell the others to put on there gas masks mustard gas was first used in 1915 and was called chlorine gas. the German name for mustard gas was Yperite 

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