World War I also introduced submarines as a naval weapon in warfare. Besides this battle, Allied naval ships were used to blockade Germany to prevent supplies and food from reaching the country.
The main naval battle in World War I was the Battle of Jutland.
These ships had powerful long-range guns, allowing them to attack other ships and land targets from a long distance. The most dangerous ships during World War I were large metal-armored battleships called dreadnoughts.
Neither side gained ground, but both sides lost millions of soldiers. Trench warfare caused a stalemate between the two sides for many years. The area between enemy trenches was called No Man's Land. Both sides dug long lines of trenches that helped to protect the soldiers from gunfire and artillery. Popular Science documented the evolution in tanks, that thunder before the blitz, from slow novelty to deadly weapon in the interwar years, a selection of which can be found in “ The Rise Of The Tank Before World War II.”Īlso included are novel ideas that didn’t make the cut: heavy, winged “flying tanks,” or unusual lightweight fast tanks and goofy, armored cars.Īs for the tank evolution over a full 100 years, the British Army is again happy to tell that story in a video that is as much historical timeline as modern military infomercial.Much of the war along the western front was fought using trench warfare. By the start of the next World War, however, German tanks were powerful, fast, armored and deadly machines, which enabled a style of fast attack that shaped not just World War II, but how nations after the war envisioned future wars. The earliest appearance of tanks in Popular Science comes from the December 1918 issue, in “German Monsters–Clumsy Copies of the French Tanks.” The tanks used by Germany were heavy, slow, poorly designed, and weak to all kinds of weapons, including rifle fire. See how it evolved /XmkU8VkHyo- British Army 🇬🇧 September 14, 2016 The British tank continues to play a decisive role on the battlefield.
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