Because WWI was about trench warfare, so there was not as much hand-to-hand combat, therefore, the bayonet was not as useful.
The bayonet became an old-fashioned weapon earlier than that, in the American Civil War with the acceptance of the rifle. It could only fire three shots a minute compared to the musket's four, but its range was much longer. Rifles had been in war since the 18th Century, but generals wanted short-ranged muskets with bayonets. When rifles were finally used on a large scale, the musket became obsolete, but the bayonet was retained. Fixed to rifles, bayonets have been used many times in war, but not on the large scale as when they were fixed on the ends of muskets. With a range of only about forty or fifty yards, the bayonet was much more important then. Rifles had a range of two hundred yards or better, and their bayonets seldom got a chance to be used for their intended purpose. * It is often supposed that the machine gun made the bayonet old-fashioned. Actually, most World War 1 casualties were caused by artillery.
Whether it actually is outdated or not is subject to some degree of dispute. Arguments for the obsolescence of bayonets include the capacities of modern military rifles (30+ round magazines versus. the single shot of muzzleloaders), the frequency of urban environments in modern conflicts, and the nature of warfare since the inception of the bayonet, as human wave and bayonet charge tactics are pretty much a thing of the past.
Big guns (i.e. artillery, not hand weapons).
The axe became a weapon in prehistoric (neolithic) times.(Things usually become weapons as soon as they are developed).
Are you talking about a modern reproduction for re-enactment purposes, or an original antique? If the former, the maker's name and date of manufacture would assist. original antique in 70 % condition
Don't know who, but it is named after the place called Bayonne in France. Originally it simply plugged into the end of the barrel of the weapon, having fired its shot it effectively became a spear.
The Battle of Somme was an important battle during World War I. During this battle, Germany introduced poison gas as a new weapon.
It should be the bayonet
sword, knife, bayonet
A bayonet is a thrusting weapon placed on the muzzle of a musket or rifle which turns the weapon into a spear.
A Pikestaff is a an old fashioned weapon rather like a bayonet. It was made to be a very long spear for thrusting violently into the enemy. The deployment was two-handed and was used by infantry for attacking enemy soldiers in Cavalry charges. It wasn't a weapon for throwing like a spear, but more for stabbing. It sounds quite barbaric.
it was named after the Bayonne in France (where the weapon was first made or used);
A bayonet is a small knife - which can be fixed (by its handle) to the end of the barrel of a rifle - so the soldier still has an effective weapon if he runs out of bullets.
a bayonet is a long or short blade that is affixed to the end of a rifle. this goes back to 1700's in time. the bayonet is usually removable from the weapon.............
Because it was a close-combat weapon, dating back to the 16th century. Even long before WW 1, bayonets were rarely actually used in combat and were mostly popular as general multi-purpose knifes in peacetime and between actual battles. In WW1 the changes in fighting tactics and most of all the use of long-distance guns and machine guns made sure that close-combat fights became even more of a rarity than before and they made the bayonet totally obsolete as a weapon.
the single shot rifle with bayonet
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Bayonets were made before there were muskets- it was a metal blade on the end of a wooden shaft- and was known as a pike. Early firearms were single shot- after firing that shot, you had no fast access to another weapon- so the blade of the pike was added to the musket- and became known by the French term Bayonet.
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