It caused WW1 to be different from any war before by caused more casualties and forced soldiers to fight from trenches, it also made the cavalry charge obsolete and prompted armies to build tanks
The machine gun caused 90%+ of the casualties during WW1, so it effected it greatly. The machine rejected trench assaults as it allowed you to mow down your attackers before they could even reach you.
Devastation. The tactics used in the First World War were remnants of 19th Century warfare, which did not involve the use of machine guns, and relied heavily on human wave attacks. When countered with continuous machine gun fire, the obsolescence of these tactics came to light.
The machine gun played a huge role in World War I. Specifically, it was the pinnacle of arms technology at that time, and made fighting much more deadly and dangerous.
The effect was that people were killed mercilessly by the enemy states as they wanted to capture land of other countries and never hesitated in killing millions of people.
The lethality of he machine gun quickly turned the Western Front into trench warfare. Only dugouts could protect the troops from the hailstorm of bullets all sides were able to produce.
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Answer One of the most poplar machine guns was the Maxim, which was named after its inventor.
the ww1 machine is the Vickers Machine Gun link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun . The 'machines' that first came into military use in WW I were the aeroplane and the tank.
The British used the Vickers machine gun
The Vickers machine gun was the primary machine gun they used in WWI.
Yes that is when gun turrets were invented.
In World War 2 there were three types of machine guns used: squad support weapon, medium machine gun, and Heavy Machine gun such as the Browning M2, and the M1919
The primary one they used was the Vickers machine gun.
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The machine guns in 1914 needed 6-8 one to fire, one to reload ammunition rest to carry gun. The machine guns needed to be on a flat surface and was placed on a tripod. They also had a fire power of 100 guns. The Vickers machine gun was sued through the first world war and through the second world war.
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