WWI Technology Group Work

The first planes used for bombings could only carry small bombs and were very vulnerable to attack from the ground.

With more planes taking to the skies, enemy pilots began to fight each other in the air. At first, they tried throwing grenades at each other or shooting with rifles and pistols.

The first use of airplanes in World War I was for reconnaissance. The airplanes would fly above the battlefield and determine the enemy's movements and position.

With mounted machine guns, pilots often fought enemy pilots in the air. These fights in the air were called dogfights. 

Artillery proved the number one threat to infantry and tanks alike and came in several light, medium, and heavy forms.

Artillery was one such weapon and it proved highly critical against all manner of target – infantry, fortifications, tanks.

Its design was highly classical, incorporating large, spoked wheels to either side of the box trail carriage arrangement

A typical gunnery crew numbered six personnel, each charged with a certain task during the firing and reloading phase and ammunition supplies were only limited to those on hand from artillery tractors or similar stores.

A Curtiss Model AB-2 airplane catapulted off the deck of the USS North Carolina on July 12, 1916. The first time an aircraft was ever launched by catapult from a warship while underway was from North Carolina on November 5, 1915.

The USS Fulton (AS-1), an American submarine tender painted in Dazzle camouflage, in the Charleston South Carolina Navy Yard on November 1, 1918.

UB-148, a small coastal submarine, was laid down during the winter of 1917 and 1918 at Bremen, Germany, but never commissioned in the Imperial German Navy.

Dazzle camouflage was widely used during the war years, designed to make it difficult for an enemy to estimate the range, heading, or speed of a ship, and make it a harder target - especially as seen from a submarine's periscope.

Flamethrowers were used by the German army against Allied troops in World War I.

Easy to make yourself 

Flamethrowers have been used for controlled prescribed burns

Flamethrowers can ignite surrounding objects and structures

The machine gun’s ability to mow down enemies quickly and in great numbers forever changed the face of modern warfare.

Machine guns were hand-powered, not automatic, but they provided a gateway for what was to dominate 20th-century battlegrounds. 

By World War I, machine guns were fully automatic weapons that fired bullets rapidly, up to 450 to 600 rounds a minute.

In the form of lightweight portable versions carried by infantry, or of heavy guns mounted on ships and planes, the machine gun has become a commonplace battlefield weapon

Toxic smoke has been used occasionally in warfare since ancient times, and in 1912 the French used small amounts of tear gas in police operations

Germans fired shells loaded with xylyl bromide, a more lethal gas, at Russian troops at Bolimov on the eastern front

In WWI  chemical warfare did not occur, primarily because all the major belligerents possessed both chemical weapons and the defenses–such as gas masks, protective clothing, and detectors–that rendered them ineffectual. 

Mustard gas, introduced by the Germans in 1917, blistered the skin, eyes, and lungs, and killed thousands.

375 U-boats commissioned before the end of the war.

10 shipyards built 375 U-boats that were ready during WWI.

Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière success was 195 ships sunk or captured 8 ships damaged

Weddigen also received the first Bavarian Military Max Josef Order of WW I that was given to non-Bavarians and this on the 11th October 1914.

Tanks had a powerful gun, thick sloped armor, and wide tracks able to handle rough terrain. It was key in Russia's victory against Germany on the Eastern Front.

Early WWI tanks reached 120°F inside and some crews passed out from heat exhaustion.

The first tanks were developed by the British in WWI.

Specialized paints and rubber skirts help reduce a tank's heat signature to evade infrared detection and targeting systems.

Trench warfare is a type of fighting where both sides build deep trenches as a defense against the enemy.

The trenches were dug by soldiers. Sometimes the soldiers just dug the trenches straight into the ground. This method was called entrenching. 

Tunneling was the safest method, but also the most difficult.

The enemy trenches were generally around 50 to 250 yards apart.