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Indian troops in trenches with Lewis Guns during WWI

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There are 3 major weapons that were used in WWI. The riffle is one weapon used. It was majorly combatants were, among the allies. Another weapon is the machine gun. They allow defender to cut down attacking waves of enemy troops. Lastly the flamethrower was used. Tanks carried on men's backs used nitrogen pressure to spray fuel that ignited as it left the muzzle of a small hand-directed pipe.

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A rifle on a soldiers back while moving location.

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The rifle was the most common weapon used in WWI. During the war 30 million or more rifles were manufactured or imported. The rifle is also known as the finest rifle during WWI. All nations required soldiers to have a standard rifle for daily use and trench warfare. Rifles were predictable unlike new inventions such as tanks, poison gas and others. Most rifles used in WWI had a bayonet, which is a long knife attached to the end of a rifle. The bayonets were helpful in hand-to-hand combat, soldiers could stab enemies by lunging the rifle forward into the enemy. There were 8 different kinds of rifles used during the war. Each was used by a different nation.

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British Vickers gun team in action at the Battle of the Somme. Both are wearing gas masks.

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The machine gun was invented by Hiram S. Maxim in 1884 in the United States. The gun weighs 136.5 pounds. The machine gun works by harnessing energy released in firing cartridge, making it capable to discharge multiple bullets by simply pulling a trigger. The gun can shoot 600 rounds per minute. The gun is water-cooled by a jacket around the barrel with 1 gallon of water inside. The gun got the nickname of the Vickers gun. By the time WWI began there were 12,000 guns which soon grew to over 100,000 guns. 90% of the Germans small arms ammunition was machine guns.

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A soldier using a flamethrower directed at a tree.

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The flamethrower was invented by Richard Fiedler, in 1900. The Germans accepted the flamethrower into their army in 1911 but started practicing with flamethrowers to prepare for combat. They were first brought into war on February 26th 1915. They were called the flammenwerfer in Germany. The flamethrower is capable of shooting flames a distance of 20 yards. A container with fuel is held on soldiers backs with a pipe to fire out of. The phrase Fear of fire, of burning to death, was used to intimidate enemies of the new nightmarish German weapon.

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U.S. troops with the Hotchkiss, 1918. (Library of Congress)

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Works Cited

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