Most were knocked out relatively easily by German troops already trained and equipped with the “K” armor-piercing rifle bullets. ⏯︎ The Mark V* star and Mk.V** double star, were lengthened versions designed to assault the Hindendurg line, presenting very large antitank trenches. ...
Unique weapons to Verdun include the Winchester Model 1897 ‘trench gun’, the MP 18 submachine gun, flamethrowers, and even an anti-tank rifle, albeit only in the Attrition and Team Deathmatch game modes. One notable omission is the heavy machine gun. On the sometimes narrow maps of Verdun...
Austro-Hungarian Empire (1911) Tank Design – Concept Only “The claim that the Kampfwagen is an English invention – the term ‘tank’ should be avoided, being a foreign word and technically incorrect, – appears in the various newspapers and journals. This claim is completely wrong. The ...
The AGO S.I was an armored, heavily armed ground attack aircraft designed to fill the requirement for the German Luftstreitkräfte their S type plane; a dedicated anti-tank ground attack aircraft. Before the end of the war, two of the type were produced, but the war would end before pr...
every rifle was trained on that slow-moving body – not a shot rang out yet; it would be murder when we did fire, we could not miss them…The whole line vomited out a blaze of fire; ahead of us Germans reeled and fell, the grey horse reared up on its hind legs and horse and ri...