Can someone compare and contrast the weapons used in ww1 and ww2 including the airplane weapons things pxz?
World War 1 was a time of rapidly changing military technology… machine guns, quick-firing artillery (ie, artillery with a recoil absorber so the gun didn’t have to be repositioned after each shot) and repeating rifles accurate to a mile caused enormous casualties and made war horrific on a scale never before seen. Tactics that had existed since before Napoleon no longer worked, and nations stumbled around to find a way to break the stalemate. Industrial advancement led to petrol engines which were in early development in this war, and allowed nations to build aeroplanes and armoured vehicles. The aeroplane existed before the war in a crude and unreliable form, and was used for spotting and reconnaissance. From this, planes were armed with machine guns and small bombs to take part in the battle, but they generally couldn’t lift much or fly very far. Armoured vehicles were invented as a result of the stalemate and slaughter by the British and French, with the Germans making a half-hea