Weapons In World War I

Weapons
In the First World War there were a wide variety of weapons used especially when you count their variation (or different models). Here are a list of weapons used:
• Rifles
• Machine guns
• Mustard & chlorine gas
• Tanks
• Zeppelins
• Flamethrowers
• Torpedoes and submarines
• Aviation
• Artillery field gun
• Mortars
• Barbed wire
• Anti-aircraft guns
• Railway guns
Rifles
Throughout WWI many different types of rifles were used
They looked scary, but their bark was worse than their bite because all it took were some bullets from an enemy’s plane and then their balloons deflated and the zeppelins came down. Flamethrowers
Flamethrowers were very effective in world war one when used at close range, but, they came with disadvantages. These weapons didn’t have the range of rifles and if you operated a flamethrower, you were the target of the enemy fire. Flamethrowers gave the change of gas cylinders blowing up and injuring the operator. Torpedoes and submarines
In world war one every navy had submarines and they all were equipped with torpedoes and deck guns. Torpedoes were self-propelled weapons which were used simply for the role of taking down other submarines and proved quite useful in world war one. Aviation
At the start of world war one planes weren’t very effective because they were very basic and didn’t serve much purpose. But by the end of world war one they were a lot more useful and complicated as well as coming in two main types; fighters and