By Tarang Saxena

British Army weapons The word artillery was used to describe large- calibre mounted firearms. The calibre is the diameter of its barrel bore. In the 19th century artillery was divided into light and heavy, depending on the weight of solid shot fired. Light guns, deployed at battalion level, were usually 4-6 pounders, whereas heavy guns were 8-12 pounders. At the beginning of the First World War the main support weapon for the British Army was the long-barreled field gun. Also available was the QF (quick-firing) field gun that had a system that bounced the barrel back into firing position.

German weapons The most common sub machine gun the Germans used was the MP40.The term Schmeisser was used in reference to a sub machine gun. The MP40 was not created by Schmeisser, and the weapon was far simple and had a much cleaner design, thus it remained a standard issue for the German troops. An earlier design called the MP38 had a similar appearance and saw widespread distribution. A less known model called Erma was also made as well as a German copy of the British STEN gun, called MP3008.The Waffen- SS used a submachine gun made by Bergman called the MP34 also. The standard German infantry weapon was the rifle, originally designed by Mauser and dubbed the Karabiner 98k. This weapon was a 5-shot, bolt- action rifle that actually dated back to 1898 when it was first adopted by the Imperial German Army. It was standardissue for German troops in WWI and, in its modified 98k version (k for kurz, or short), in WWII as well.

Ottoman Army Weapons  765-mm M1903 Mauser action bolt rifle  9.5-mm Mauser M1887 rifle  lPeabody-Martini mm M1874 rifle l  7.63-mm Mauser C96 and 9-mm FN-Browning M1903 pistols  MG machine gun  75-mm and 77-mm field guns  75-mm Krupp M03 L/30 Field Gun (had a range of 6000 m)  77-mm Krupp M96 L/27 Na (range 7800 m) and the 77-mm Rheinmetall M16 L/35 (range 9000 m)

Questions What weapons did the Turkish use? Allied forces used.303 calibre Lee Enfield rifles, the Turks (some) used German rifles.

World War Two Weapons (China) Handguns  Mauser C96  Luger P08  Browning Hi-Power  Colt M1911  Tokarev TT-30/TT-33  FN M1900  Nambu Pistol

Rifles  Chiang Kai-Shek rifle  Hanyang 88  Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, M1938, M1944  Mauser Karabiner 98k  Gewehr 98  Browning Automatic Rifle  Mondragon rifle  ZH-29  Vz. 24  Johnson M1941 Rifle  Arisaka Type 38 rifle, Type 44 carbine, and Type 99 rifle  FN 1924

Gallipoli Campaign, April, 1815

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