The Use of Major Military Armaments In World War 1

The firstly military armaments is the airplane. At the start of World War One, aircraft were very basic and crude. By the time World War One had ended, aircraft had become far more important and had differentiated into fighters, bombers and long-range bombers. The development of aircraft was stimulated by the war’s requirements, as was the way aircraft were actually used. At the start of the war in August 1914, British airmen were part of the British Army and commissioned officers had army ranks. By the end of the war in November 1918, the Royal Flying Corps no longer existed and was formed into the newly created Royal Air Force. This had its own command structure away from the army and introduced its own ranks. The first recorded powered flight was in 1903 when the Wright brothers flew their aircraft. The first powered crossing of the English Channel was by Louis Blèriot in 1909. Therefore it could only be expected that in 1914 aircraft remained remarkably “unimportant”. In the autumn of 1914 a new recruit to the Royal Flying Corps had a greater chance of being killed during training than during combat. When British aircraft took off from England to fly to bases in France for the first time in the war, navigation was based on map reading while in the

Tank

Flamethrower

Airplane

HMS Hibernia (Aircraft Carrier)

Interrupter Gun (AA Gun)

air and, if the lack of clouds allowed, looking out for landmarks on the ground to guide the pilots. Initially aircraft were thought to be of little combat use. One unknown British general commented: “The airplane is useless for the purposes of war.” The second armament is tanks. The first tank, the name of tank is British Mark I, was designed in 1915 and first saw combat at the Somme in September 1916. The French soon followed suit with the Renault FT, which established turret on top. Despite their later prowess in tank combat in WWII, the Germans never made a mass production of the tank in WWI, although they did produce only 21 tanks in the unwieldy A7V model which they called it “Panzer” (Armour). The third one is the first design for a modern flamethrower was submitted to the German Army by Richard Fiedler in 1901, and the devices were tested by the Germans with an experimental detachment in 1911. Their true potential was only realized during trench warfare, however. After a massed assault on enemy lines, it wasn’t uncommon for enemy soldiers to hole up in bunkers and dugouts hollowed into the side of the trenches. Unlike grenades, flamethrowers could “neutralize” enemy soldiers in these confined spaces without inflicting structural damage. The flamethrower was first used by German troops near Verdun in February 1915. The other military armament that they used are aircraft carrier eventually did not widely used by the British Royal Navy, the poison gas made by the German was widely use in the war against the British Army and Interrupter Gear used same as AA gun (Anti-air Gun) made by US Army.