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British Vicker Machine Guns

Water cooled and fires 500 rounds per second.It was broken up for transport

The German maxim was also water cooled.most guns were then.this gun caused 90% of the british deaths on the opening day of there offensive.

These are british motorized machine guns

German Maxims,Germans had 12,500 of these massive weapons during the war and produced 100,000 more

German Machingeewer

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Artilery

French loading a Massive shell into french artilary weapon

This is the Howitzer,The Shells weighed 1786 lbs and could fire every 6 minutes.

Military official holding an exploded shell of a railway gun.

British 18-pounder

German 42cm "big bertha" named after Bertha Krup

German 17cm Railway gun.The recoil was also used to push carts down rails

French 75mm. Rapid Firing and Accuarate.