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what were the weapons used for the first time in world war 1?
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- ammianusLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Tanks
Armoured cars
Poison gas
Tear gas
Dreadnought battleships
Combat aircraft
Airships
Trench mortars
Aircraft carriers
Tracked large calibre siege mortars
Long range supergun artillery
Anti aircraft guns
Submarines, barbed wire, grenades and flamethrowers had all been used in battle some years before WW1, so are not included in my list.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
As you can see, a lot of people think that the airplane was first used in WW I, but the Americans used them in the so-called "police action" against Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa.
A lot of people think that machine guns were first used here, too, though they had been used in various wars and skirmishes around the world, including the Spanish-American war. Ditto for armored cars.
- blackjack432001Lv 61 decade ago
the armored tank, machine gun, chemical warfare in large menacing forms, submarines and torpedoes. wrist watches were introduced along with eastern standard time/ daylight savings time, mobile hospital units, blood transfusions, limited airplanes and aerial bombings, etc. the list is nearly endless on 'firsts'. WW1 is indeed the first modern war with items used that were never seen before.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
World War I was so deadly primarily because it saw the use of nineteenth-century military tactics with twentieth-century technology.
Before World War I, there were no machine guns. In addition, barbed wire, poison gas, and the automobile played big parts.
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- ?Lv 41 decade ago
the .303 rifle, the tank, a very early form of the aeroplane (as well as one that was designed to take off from the water), grenades and many more.
- lenghartkLv 71 decade ago
Bayonets, flamethrowers, grenades, machine guns, pistols, luger's, poison gas, rifles, tanks and trench mortars.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The tank, airplane(bombers and fighters) and mustard gas