Weapons

At the beginning of the Great War, the soldiers of the Monarchy were equipped with rifle-mounted bayonets. Such was, for

We have already talked about the earlier and the later, more modern versions of the 15 cm howitzers. In this

Mortars were an important artillery tool in trench battles. Their projectiles moved on a steep trajectory, so they could reach

In the conditions of the Great War, the greatest danger to the troops standing in the trenches was the projectiles

This was a small-caliber artillery tool specially developed for trench warfare. His task was to destroy machine gun nests reinforced

It was the main gun type of the Monarchy’s heavy artillery at the beginning of the Great War. The first

In the trench battles of the Great War, constant communication between troop units, observers and headquarters was critically important. In

At the beginning of the Great War, the use of hand grenades was not common among the warring parties. The

The development of the Monarchy’s artillery became an urgent task after the outbreak of the Great War. Heavy artillery was

The Austro-Hungarian navy underwent rapid development before the Great War. This happened because, after the establishment of Italian unity, Italy