A mortar is a gun firing at a high angle (more than 45°), to perform indirect fire. The curved, bell-shaped trajectory of the projectile makes it possible to reach an objective placed behind an obstacle, which a gun cannot engage because the trajectory of its projectile is tense. The energy produced
The Grosse Bertha is the French name for a very large piece of land artillery used by the German army during the First World War. It is by mistake that this name is often given to the cannon that bombarded Paris (see below). History In 1908, the German General Staff commissioned the armaments fact
Country:France Caliber:65mm weight:400 kg projectile muzzle velocities:330m/s horizontal ranges of fire:6° vertical field of fire:-9° to +32° range:5.500m projectile weight 4.5kg or 3.8 kg Transport in 4 Bundles The mountain 65, which will gradually replace the mountain 80, was a rapid-fire
Canon of 75 Mdle 1897 Country:France Caliber:75mm tube length:2.58m weight:1,140 kg curb weight:1,970 kg initial projectile speed:575m/s horizontal fields of fire:6° vertical field of fire:-11° to +18° range:11,000m projectile weight:6.195 kg The 75 mm model 1897 gun is a field artillery
155 long GPF (Large Range Fillioux) Caliber:155mm tube length: weight:11.5 tons initial projectile speed:735m/s horizontal firing ranges:60° vertical field of fire:from 0 to +35° range:17000m projectile weight 42kg rate of fire 4 rounds/min Fruit of the work of Commander Fillioux, this hig
Mark A Whippet Country Great Britain Type :medium tank Performance:speed 12.8 km/h autonomy 64 km. Crew :3 men Armament :4 Hotchkiss 303 machine guns. Shielding :at least 5 mm; max 14mm. Dimsension : length 6.09m; width :2.61m; height :2 74m Weight in combat order :14.2 t Engines :two Ta
General features Crew 6 Length 6.32m Width 2.05m Height 2.30m Combat mass 14.6 tons Armor and armament 11.5mm armour Main armament 75 mm gun (90 shells, range:600 m, accurate to 200 m) Secondary armament 2 Hotchkiss 8 mm machine guns (one on each flank) Mobility Schneider 4-cylinder engine
General characteristics Crew 8 Length 8.7m Width 2.7m Height 2.4m Combat mass 22 tons Armor and armament Armor from 11 to 19 mm Main armament 75 mm Saint Chamond L12CTR gun Secondary armament 4 Hotchkiss 8 mm machine guns Mobility 4-cylinder Panhard et Levassor90 hp ( kW) gasoline engine
FT-17 cannon Renault FT-17 General characteristics Crew 2 (commander and pilot) Length 4.95m Width 1.73m Height 2.13m Combat mass 6.7 tons Armor and armament Shielding 6 to 22 mm Main armament 37mm SA18 gun Mobility Renault engine, 4.48 liter 4 cyl petrol35 hp ( kW) Road speed 8 km/h Spe
the Vickers machine gun entered service with the British Army in 1912. This weapon, originally designed in 1884 by the American engineer Maxim, was later modernized and became the standard weapon in Great Britain. The Vickers machine gun equipped both the Army and the British Air Force. Used during
The Gewehr 98 or Mauser model 1898, was the standard rifle of the German army from 1898 to 1935, when the Karabiner 98k replaced it. History The 1898 model from the Mauser firm is the latest descendant of a line that began in the early 1890s. . It is one meter twenty five long and weighs 4.09 kilog
The Bergmann Maschinenpistole 18 or Bergmann MP18, was the first real submachine gun to be used militarily in large quantities. Designed during the First World War by Hugo Schmeisser, it was distributed to frontline troops (including the Sturmtruppen, German assault troops). By the end of the war, t
The Luger Parabellum is one of the very first semi-automatic pistols and probably the first to have been widely distributed. Developed in 1898 by Georg Luger from the Borchardt pistol, this weapon will be used both during the First and the Second World War. It was produced and put into service in se
The short magazine rifle Lee-Enfield Mark III armed British and Commonwealth troops from 1907 to the early 1960s. Lee-Metford rifles and cotoya his official successor the Lee Enfield n°4 during the Second World War. Production This twist-bolt shotgun, with a long barrel and fore-end, with semi-stra
The Brodie helmet, also known as the shrapnel helmet or the Tommy helmet, is a steel helmet designed and patented in 1915 by John Brodie. At the start of the First World War, none of the belligerent countries had planned a steel helmet for his fighters. Most soldiers went into battle with a cloth he
The flamethrower is a mechanical device designed to throw flames or, more correctly, to project an ignited liquid. It is used by the military and also by those who need to burn land and wooded areas, such as in agriculture or in forest management. Many modern non-military flamethrowers do not use a
The VB grenade put into service in 1916, was the most famous French rifle grenade. It was shot using a blunderbuss attached to the rifle Lebel, using a classic cartridge. It was crossed in its axis by a cylinder of the diameter of the bullet, and the tube of the detonator was parallel to this axis.
Around the years 1875-1880, two major questions arose in the military circles of the various nations; on the one hand the adoption for the infantry of repeating weapons and on the other hand the advisability of a further reduction in caliber, below 10 mm.These questions were debated, because the ado
Knife-dagger model 16 the avenger of 1870 The conflict evolving from war of movement to war of position, combat conditions will also evolve. Indeed, positional warfare, especially in the trenches, will favor close combat. The need is therefore felt to equip the troops with daggers. At first the
Designed by John Moses Browning, the Colt Government was the pistol of the US Army for 74 years under the designation M1911 from 1911 to 1985. Particularly robust and reliable from its first version, it was modernized in 1926 becoming the M1911A1. Argentina was the first foreign user of the M1911A1
The logistical supply from the United States was provided by freighters, and by the Military Airlift Comma (MAC) fleet composed mainly of C-141 Star lifters; the C-130s provided most tactical transport operations, showed a rare efficiency in this work. A considerable fleet of helicopters, especially
On November 27, 1095, during the Clermont Council (France), the attendees experienced a mixture of surprise, stupefaction and enthusiasm upon hearing the unusual address of Pope Urban II . Although the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos had launched a dramatic request for help in the face of the M
Few campaigns of the Second World War gave rise to such bitter discussions as Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in Provence on August 15, 1944. First called Anvil, this operation was ardently supported by the Americans - the President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General Dwight D. Eisenhower in th
The German Schnellboot (S-Boot) differed greatly from its Royal Navy counterparts. It had its origin in a civilian model developed by Lürssen in the early thirties; built of wood on a steel frame, it had a round-chine hull which gave it a lower maximum speed than that of the British hard-chine boats