"World War I - The first Modern War" Topic
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| tberry7403 | 26 Jul 2014 2:18 p.m. PST |
For those interested… Tonight the History (sic) Channel is airing four episodes of this new series. Rather than cover the war in general they seem to be focusing on specfic technological developments. The first episode is on tanks. The second is on large bomb carrying airships. The third on the weaponizing of chemicals. The fourth on submarines. Hope it turns out better than their series "The World Wars". |
| skippy0001 | 26 Jul 2014 4:30 p.m. PST |
Artillery and machineguns caused the most casualties. Let's ignore that… |
| tberry7403 | 26 Jul 2014 7:02 p.m. PST |
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| Ceterman | 26 Jul 2014 9:46 p.m. PST |
And what's wrong with that statement skippy? The word "machieguns"? I'm pretty sure after artillery, MG's were probably next? I think it's a fairly good show for the History channel… |
| bsrlee | 26 Jul 2014 10:56 p.m. PST |
War between the States – Submarines, machineguns, aircraft, mines. Weaponised chemicals?, riiight, no such things as spiders then, Greeks chucking jars of poisonous snakes or chemical warfare at Dura Europos (Rome vs Persia). |
| skippy0001 | 27 Jul 2014 1:55 p.m. PST |
I watch a lot of documentaries on Netflix and there's too much 'bent fluff'. I'm old and cranky today so don't mind me. |
| Ceterman | 27 Jul 2014 9:08 p.m. PST |
Me too, I smell what you're steppin' in… |
| spontoon | 29 Jul 2014 4:40 p.m. PST |
ACW? No machine guns. Rapid firing guns, yes; but the frtst " Machine gun" was invented by Hiram Maxim. A " Machine gun" is one in which the action of firing, loading and ejecting cartridges is performed by the action of gases upon the weapon's mechanisms. Also submarines, mines,"aircraft", railways were used in warfare before the ACW. The only true innovation the ACW seems to have introduced was barbed wire! |
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adds a machinegun platoon to his WWI Brits.