Weapons

I already wrote in detail about the 42 cm super mortar here. Reading the war reminiscences, I have the impression ...

The Lohner Pfeilflieger got its name from the backward-pointing wings. The first plane was completed in 1912. Soon it was ...

I have already dealt with the use of searchlights in general here. The most important development process was that the ...

Among the many military innovations of the Great War, one of the most horrific was the use of chemical weapons ...

The Monarchy’s navy developed at a rapid pace from the 1880s onwards. The effort resulted in the world’s sixth largest ...

At the beginning of the war, the searchlight units were attached to fortress artillery. Each regiment had 2-3 lighting platoons, ...

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 ...