Ww1 Armored Weapons

During WWI, land battles were fought in trenches with guns. Twenty years after WWI, ground war and land battles transformed. It transformed from static trench warfare to very mobile battlefields. The reason for this transformation was the introduction of military vehicles. Artillery vehicles, armored cars, and tanks were the most effective military vehicles of their time. Armored cars were lightly armed and wheeled and often used as command vehicles, though they saw their share of combat. Artillery vehicles were used to shoot at aircrafts, shoot at tanks, or to shoot rockets. Whether it is an anti-aircraft gun, or anti-tank gun, or rocket artillery, these self-propelled guns offered much greater flexibility than their towed cannons. Unlike armored cars and artillery vehicles, tanks were tracked and heavily armored. They were originally used to break through trench stalemates, …show more content…
France designed the Panhard Type 178, which was a better version of the Toe-M-32. It was designed to police the reaches of the French Empire overseas, particularly in North Africa where unrest was prevalent. The Type 178 was fielded in the German Invasion of France in 1940 and proved effective. In 1944, the Germans were being pushed back along multiple fronts. France proper was then separated from Axis Control by the end of 1944 and, with it, came the liberation of the wartime facilities. Then shortly the Type 178 was back in production for the French Army and served with Free French forces from there on. Furthermore, the SdKfz 234 or generally known as “Puma,” was used by Germany in WWII. German campaigns proved the success of the Puma. The production of the Puma began in April of 1944 and completed in December when attention had already shifted towards newer models. In the end of the war, only 100 of these vehicles were fielded before Germany capitulated in May of 1945 and their effectiveness was never wholly