the smokeless, long-range, high-velocity, small-bore magazine bullet from rifle or machine gun - plus the trench - had decisively tilted the balance against attack and in favour of defence.
- Pakenham
Technology ADVANCES
- Being rich in coal, South Africa has some of the largest coal powered stations in the world
-Technologically, it saw the first use of some of the generation of weapons that are still with us today - automatic handguns, magazine-fed rifles, and machine guns.
-It employed modern weapons - quick-firing rifles with magazines; machine guns, such as the Maxim gun; and new types of high explosive such as lyddite, said to be capable of killing everything within 50 yards of its point of detonation
-Smokeless gun powder advancements meant that there was less time in reloading guns, and there was more accuracy in firing weapons. The modern guns also meant that when shooting from far away it can be unknown from where they are coming from.
-Technologically, it saw the first use of some of the generation of weapons that are still with us today - automatic handguns, magazine-fed rifles, and machine guns.
-It employed modern weapons - quick-firing rifles with magazines; machine guns, such as the Maxim gun; and new types of high explosive such as lyddite, said to be capable of killing everything within 50 yards of its point of detonation
-Smokeless gun powder advancements meant that there was less time in reloading guns, and there was more accuracy in firing weapons. The modern guns also meant that when shooting from far away it can be unknown from where they are coming from.