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 ...

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 ...