Tank the reason for this was that the British workers first making the tank were told the were making top secret water tanks as to keep the project as secretive as possible and so the name stuck!
It was much easier to defend a trench because you were behing cover and camped in to your position unlike the attackers who were running across open plains and were constantly loosing men and getting shot down by machine gun fire.
blimp plane machine gun
Weapons like machine guns could easily kill troops in the open.
The machine gun caused trench warfare to be a necessity as 90%+ of the casualties of WW1 were from this weapon. The use of Napoleonic tactics against new technologies was disastrous.
The most common deaths in the trench warfare were shot by machine guns, afterwards to solve the problems of the machine guns tanks were introduced
As a defensive measure, in case the front trench was overrun.
Because as soon as you came out of YOUR protective trench to get to the enemies trench you would be machine gunned down.
It was much easier to defend a trench because you were behing cover and camped in to your position unlike the attackers who were running across open plains and were constantly loosing men and getting shot down by machine gun fire.
Bacon is an awesome codename.
blimp plane machine gun
Weapons like machine guns could easily kill troops in the open.
In the days of trench warfare, they were. In modern times, they are not.
The easiest way to dig a trench efficiently is by using a trenching machine or a trenching shovel. These tools can help you dig the trench quickly and with less physical effort compared to using a regular shovel.
Codename MAT was created in 1984.
Codename MAT happened in 1984.
Codename Icarus was created in 1981.
Codename Eagle happened in 1999.