The rifle was by far the most common weapon used in the world war. When the major powers entered the conflict, they possessed around 11 million rifles.

Military technology of the time included important innovations in machine guns, grenades, and artillery, along with essentially new weapons such as submarines, poison gas, warplanes and tanks.

Rifles

• Berthier Mle 1907/15 M16 rifle.
• Lebel and Berthier rifles.
• Fusil MAS36.
• Fusil MAS36 CR39.
• MAS-36.
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle.
• Meunier rifle.

Several kinds of weapons were used in the Battle of Ypres. Poison gas, artillery, hand grenades, machine guns, trench warfare equipment, rifles, and…

Artillery. Artillery was the most destructive weapon on the Western Front. Guns could rain down high explosive shells, shrapnel and poison gas on the enemy and heavy fire could destroy troop concentrations, wire, and fortified positions.

Pistole Revolveur Modele 1892
France. The French standard issue weapon was the Pistole Revolveur Modele 1892. It was manufactured by numerous state-owned factories and also in Belgium and Spain. Popularly referred to as either the ‘Lebel’ or ‘model d’Ordonnance’ it resembled the British Webley, although it fired six 8mm rounds.

FAMAS F1. FAMAS (Fusil d’Assaut de la Manufacture d’Armes de Saint-Étienne – Assault rifle of the Weapons factory of Saint-Étienne) is the bullpup assault service rifle used by the Foreign Legion and other French Army forces. It was created in 1973. The Foreign Legion has been using the FAMAS since the early 1980s.

Trench Weapons

• Trench Weapons.
• Grenades.
• Underground Mining.
• Artillery and Mortars.
• Machine-Guns.
• Poison Gas.
• Rifles.
• Tanks and Armoured Vehicles.

The rifles most commonly used by the major combatants were, among the Allies, the Lee-Enfield . 303 (Britain and Commonwealth), Lebel and Berthier 8mm (France), Mannlicher–Carcano M1891, 6.5mm (Italy), Mosin–Nagant M1891 7.62 (Russia), and Springfield 1903 . 30–06 (USA).

> Lethality index score: 210,000,000,000 Created in the manic arms race of the Cold War, the B-41 hydrogen bomb is the deadliest weapon on this list. The bomb has never been used in warfare but is capable of destruction on a colossal scale.

By World War I, machine guns were fully automatic weapons that fired bullets rapidly, up to 450 to 600 rounds a minute. By 1914, German forces had 12,000 machine guns, compared with a few hundred between the French and British. Over the next century, new designs made machine guns an ever-present part of war.

In Service Weapon Caliber (s) Capacity Designation Used By: PAMAS G1 9x19mm 15 All Branches Glock 17 9x19mm 17 French Army French Army Special Forces B MAC Mle 1950 9x19mm 9 MAC 50 All Branches (Until 1978) French Army Sp Manurhin MR-73 .357 Magnum 6 Gendarmerie GIGN

Kingdom of Belgium 1 Browning FN M1900 2 Browning FN M1903 3 Browning FN M1910 4 Colt M1903 Pocket Hammerless 5 Nagant M1895 6 Ruby M1914

The French were forced to match their German counterparts pound-for-pound in the bloody fighting that made up infantry warfare during World War 1. There are a total of [ 26 ] WW1 French Infantry Arms entries in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order (1-to-Z).

Weapons used in trench raids 1 Billhook 2 Brass knuckles 3 Claymore 4 E-tool 5 Fascine knife 6 French Nail 7 French raiding hammer 8 Hatchet 9 Mace 10 Machete 11 Pickaxe handle 12 Push dagger 13 Spade 14 Stiletto 15 Trench knife 16 Trench raiding club 17 Webley Mk I, Mk II and Mk III