Turret: Weapons Used During World War I
Turrets were also known as artillery units. These turrets were regularly used throughout WWI in many battles including Passchendaele. Most turrets were different with most being able to fire shrapnel. Shrapnel was dangerous as it shoots out hot pieces of metal after an explosion towards enemy trenches. Thousands of soldiers died as a result of shrapnel wound.
When tanks were brought into the battle to attempt to fight, they simply got stuck in the thick mud and that caused little effect to attack the opponents.
Germany made advances in helmet technology which was cheap to make and protected soldiers quite well from shrapnel. This helmet was the steel helmet. Other types of turrets which were designed to cause major destruction to trenches and …show more content…
Machine Guns were very successful weapons that were used throughout WWI. They would be set up on front line trenches and were able to fire over 150 rounds a minute and was able to sweep the landscape whilst still firing. This added excellent and accurate fire power against the enemy.
Machine Guns were responsible for the deaths of thousands of soldiers who went 'over the top' as they could be moved across the landscape whilst firing and chopping down waves and waves of soldiers. The only disadvantages machine guns had were that they were very heavy and required 2 to 4 soldiers to actually use.
This was invented in 1886 and fired smokeless cartridges. However, it had a very big practical design flaw; it had to be loaded in a nose to tail fashion. This resulted in slow loading as the operator had to be wary of one round hitting the primer of the cartridge in front which caused a most unwelcome explosion.
British soldiers used arguably the best rifle available during WWI, the Lee-Enfield rifle. It had a 10 cartridge magazine, far greater than any other
When tanks were brought into the battle to attempt to fight, they simply got stuck in the thick mud and that caused little effect to attack the opponents.
Germany made advances in helmet technology which was cheap to make and protected soldiers quite well from shrapnel. This helmet was the steel helmet. Other types of turrets which were designed to cause major destruction to trenches and …show more content…
Machine Guns were very successful weapons that were used throughout WWI. They would be set up on front line trenches and were able to fire over 150 rounds a minute and was able to sweep the landscape whilst still firing. This added excellent and accurate fire power against the enemy.
Machine Guns were responsible for the deaths of thousands of soldiers who went 'over the top' as they could be moved across the landscape whilst firing and chopping down waves and waves of soldiers. The only disadvantages machine guns had were that they were very heavy and required 2 to 4 soldiers to actually use.
This was invented in 1886 and fired smokeless cartridges. However, it had a very big practical design flaw; it had to be loaded in a nose to tail fashion. This resulted in slow loading as the operator had to be wary of one round hitting the primer of the cartridge in front which caused a most unwelcome explosion.
British soldiers used arguably the best rifle available during WWI, the Lee-Enfield rifle. It had a 10 cartridge magazine, far greater than any other