The Monarchy’s navy developed at a rapid pace from the 1880s onwards. The effort resulted in the world’s sixth largest navy. The primary purpose of this was to protect the [ … ]
Category: Weapons
M 15 searchlights
At the beginning of the war, the searchlight units were attached to fortress artillery. Each regiment had 2-3 lighting platoons, each equipped with 1 piece of 90 cm and a [ … ]
M 17 assault knife
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 [ … ]
15 cm howitzer shell
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 [ … ]
M 15 12 cm trench mortar
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 [ … ]
Steel helmet
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 [ … ]
M15 3,7 cm Infantry cannon
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 [ … ]
M 99 15 cm heavy howitzer
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 [ … ]
Field telephone
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 [ … ]
M 15 “corn” hand grenade
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 [ … ]