At the beginning of the Great War, the soldiers of the Monarchy were equipped with rifle-mounted bayonets. Such was, for example, the M1895 bayonet, which was standardized for the most [ … ]

We have already talked about the earlier and the later, more modern versions of the 15 cm howitzers. In this post, I am writing about one of the ammunition types [ … ]

Mortars were an important artillery tool in trench battles. Their projectiles moved on a steep trajectory, so they could reach trenches and shelters from above, at a greater angle of [ … ]

In the conditions of the Great War, the greatest danger to the troops standing in the trenches was the projectiles of the enemy artillery. In 1915, it became obvious that [ … ]

This was a small-caliber artillery tool specially developed for trench warfare. His task was to destroy machine gun nests reinforced with sandbags and logs. Eliminating such strongholds with other available [ … ]

It was the main gun type of the Monarchy’s heavy artillery at the beginning of the Great War. The first version was commissioned in 1894. It was a recoilless gun [ … ]

In the trench battles of the Great War, constant communication between troop units, observers and headquarters was critically important. In the artillery, for example, the officer observing the targets continuously [ … ]

At the beginning of the Great War, the use of hand grenades was not common among the warring parties. The German and Turkish armies were rather well-equipped, and the other [ … ]

The development of the Monarchy’s artillery became an urgent task after the outbreak of the Great War. Heavy artillery was increasingly needed in the emerging trench warfare. Previously, it was [ … ]

The Austro-Hungarian navy underwent rapid development before the Great War. This happened because, after the establishment of Italian unity, Italy began to act as a maritime power in the Adriatic, [ … ]