Infantry Weapons Of WWI
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Handguns
  • M1870 Gasser
    M1870 Gasser
    The M1870 Gasser was a revolver chambered for 11.2x29.5mm and was adopted by the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry in 1870. It was an open-frame model, with the barrel unit attached to the frame by a screw beneath the cylinder arbor. The arbor pin was screwed into the barrel unit and fitted into a recess in...


  • Rast-Gasser M1898
    Rast-Gasser M1898
    The Rast & Gasser Model 1898 was a service revolver used by the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and various armies in World War II-Operation:...


  • Roth-Steyr M1907
    Roth-Steyr M1907
    The Roth-Steyr M1907, or, more accurately Roth-Krnka M.7 was a semi-automatic pistol issued to the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Koenigliche Armee cavalry during World War I. It was the first adoption of semi-automatic service pistol by a land army of major power.-Mechanism :The Roth-Steyr...


  • Steyr Mannlicher M1894
    Steyr Mannlicher M1894
    The M1894 Steyr Mannlicher blow-forward, semi-automatic pistol was an early semi-automatic pistol.-General features:This earliest Steyr Mannlicher pistol, manufactured by FAB.D'ARMES Neuhausen, Switzerland, was designed to be self loading and to use a special rimmed cartridge in 6.5 mm caliber...


  • Steyr Mannlicher M1901
    Steyr Mannlicher M1901
    The M1901 Mannlicher Self-Loading, Semi-Automatic Pistol was an early semi-automatic pistol design.-General features:This pistol is one of the most simple of blow-back semi-automatic pistols ever designed. The lockwork is essentially that of an elementary single action revolver...


  • Steyr M1912
    Steyr M1912
    The Steyr M1912 was developed in 1911 by the Austrian firm Steyr Mannlicher by Karl Krnka, based on the basic operating system of the Roth-Steyr M1907. It was developed for the Austro-Hungarian Army and adopted in 1912 as the M1912...


  • Dreyse M1907
    Dreyse M1907
    The Dreyse Model 1907 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Louis Schmeisser. The gun was named after Nikolaus von Dreyse, the designer of the Dreyse Needle Gun...


  • Frommer Stop
    Frommer Stop
    The Frommer Stop is a Hungarian long-recoil pistol manufactured by Fémáru-, Fegyver és Gépgyár [Metalware, Weapons and Machine Factory] in Budapest. It was designed by Rudolf Frommer, and its original design was adopted as the Pisztoly 12M in 1912, created for the Honvédség. The handgun was...


  • Mauser C96
    Mauser C96
    The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...



Rifles
  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1880 and M1880/1890

  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action. It was nicknamed the "Ruck-Zuck" by Landsers...


  • Mannlicher-Schönauer
    Mannlicher-Schönauer
    The Mannlicher-Schönauer is a type of rotary magazine bolt action rifle produced by Steyr-Mannlicher for the Greek Army in 1903 and later was also used in small numbers by the Austro-Hungarian Armies.-Design Characteristics:In the late 19th century, the...


  • Mondragón rifle

  • Gewehr 88

  • M1867 Werndl-Holub
    M1867 Werndl-Holub
    The M1867 Werndl-Holub was a single-shot breechloading rifle adopted by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1867. It replaced the breechloader-conversion Wanzl rifle...



Machine Guns
  • Salvator-Dormus M1893
    Salvator-Dormus M1893
    The Salvator-Dormus M1893 also known as Skoda M1893 was a heavy machine gun of Austro-Hungarian origin. It was patented by Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and Count George von Dormus and was manufactured by Skoda Works Plzeň. The Salvator-Dormus was chambered in the 8x50mmR round fed from an...


  • Schwazlose MG M.07/12
    Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
    The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine-gun, and was used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was also used by the Dutch, Greek and Hungarian armies during World War II...


  • Skoda M1909 machine gun
    Skoda M1909 Machine gun
    The Skoda M1909 is a Machine gun of Austro-Hungarian origin and was manufactured by the Škoda Works in Plzeň. Although it was unable to compete with the more reliable Schwarzlose m/07, it was used in the same period, albeit mostly with reserve and home guard battalions within the Austro-Hungarian...


  • MG 08

  • Madsen machine gun
    Madsen machine gun
    The Madsen was a light machine gun developed by Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schoubue and proposed for adoption by Captain Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, the Danish Minister of War and adopted by the Danish Army in 1902...



Flamethrowers
  • Flammenwerfer M.16.
    Flammenwerfer M.16.
    The Flammenwerfer M.16. was a flamethrower used by German infantry during World War I for clearing trenches and killing riflemen. It was used in 1918 in the battle of Argonne Forest in France against Allied forces. The Flammenwerfer M.16 was the first flamethrower ever. The Nazis in the 1940s...



Mortars
  • 8 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15
    8 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15
    The 8 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 was a light mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was designed by the 58th Infantry Division and the first twenty were built in the division's workshops. Later production was contracted out to Vereinigte Elektrische Maschinen A. G. in Budapest...


  • 9 cm Minenwerfer M 14
    9 cm Minenwerfer M 14
    The 9 cm Minenwerfer M 14 was a light mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was designed by the Army's own Technisches und Administratives Militär-Komitee in an effort to quickly satisfy the demand from the front for a light mortar...


  • 9 cm Minenwerfer M 17
    9 cm Minenwerfer M 17
    The 9 cm Minenwerfer M 17 was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by the Hungarian Gun Factory to meet a competition held on 3 October 1917 to replace both of the earlier light mortars, the M 14/16 and the Lanz. Production was slow to ramp up and only ten...


  • 10.5 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15
    10.5 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15
    The 10.5 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by the German firm of Ehrhardt & Sehmer. It was a rigid-recoil, muzzle-loading mortar on a fixed base that used compressed air to propel the mortar bomb to the target. Each cylinder of...


  • 12 cm Minenwerfer M 15
    12 cm Minenwerfer M 15
    The 12 cm Minenwerfer M 15 was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was designed by the Army's own Technisches und Administratives Militär-Komitee as an enlarged 9 cm Minenwerfer M 14 in 1915...


  • 12 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16
    12 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16
    The 12 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16 was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by Austria Metal Works in Brno from their earlier, rejected, 8 cm project. It was a rigid-recoil, smooth-bore, breech-loading design that had to be levered around to aim at new...


  • 14 cm Minenwerfer M 15
    14 cm Minenwerfer M 15
    The 14 cm Minenwerfer M 15 was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by Škoda Works as an alternative to a German design from Rheinische Metallwarenfabrik/Ehrhardt for which ammunition could not be procured. It was a rigid-recoil, rifled, muzzle-loading...


  • 15 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 M. E.
    15 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 M. E.
    The 15 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 M. E. was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by the German firm Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in response to a German requirement...


 Belgium Kingdom of Belgium 

Handguns
  • FN Browning M1903
  • FN Browning M1910
  • Nagant M1895
    Nagant M1895
    The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...

  • Bergmann-Bayard pistol
  • Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
    Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
    The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless is .32 ACP caliber, self-loading, semi-automatic pistol designed by John Browning and built by Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut...



Rifles
  • Mauser Model 89

  • Albini rifle
    Albini rifle
    The Albini rifle was a single-shot 11mm rifle adopted by Belgium in 1867. The action on the Albini rifle was designed by an Italian officer Augusto Albini and was perfected by an English gunsmith, Francis Braendlin...

     (Force Publique
    Force Publique
    The Force Publique , French for "Public Force", was both a gendarmerie and a military force in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1885, , through the period of direct Belgian colonial rule...

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  • M1870 Belgian Comblain
    M1870 Belgian Comblain
    The M1870 Belgian Comblain was a falling-block rifle invented by Hubert-Joseph Comblain of Liège, Belgium.-Users:: M1882 Belgian Comblain: M1873 Brazilian Comblain: M1874 Chilean Comblain: Brazilian Comblain Carbine Model 92-Sources:*...



Machine Guns
  • Hotchkiss M1914

  • Hotchkiss M1909
    Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun
    The Hotchkiss M1909 machine gun was a French designed light machine gun of the early 20th century, developed and built by Hotchkiss et Cie. It was also known as the Hotchkiss Mark I and M1909 Benet-Mercie....


  • Chauchat
    Chauchat
    The Chauchat , was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I. Under the leadership of General Joseph Joffre, it was commissioned into the French Army in 1916. It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia,...


  • Lewis Gun
    Lewis Gun
    The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...


  • M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    The Colt-Browning M1895, nicknamed potato digger due to its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute...


 British Empire

Handguns
  • Webley Revolver
    Webley Revolver
    The Webley Revolver was, in various marks, the standard issue service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the Commonwealths from 1887 until 1963.The Webley is a top-break revolver with automatic extraction...

  • Webley Self-Loading .455” Mark I (Royal Navy, since 1911, and later Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Flying Corps)
  • Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver
    Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver
    The Webley-Fosbery Self-Cocking Automatic Revolver was an unusual, recoil-operated, automatic revolver designed by Lieutenant Colonel George Vincent Fosbery, VC and produced by the Webley and Scott company from 1901 to 1915...

  • Enfield revolver
    Enfield revolver
    Enfield Revolver is the name applied to two totally separate models of self-extracting British handgun designed and manufactured at the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield; initially the .476 calibre Revolver Enfield Mk I/Mk II revolvers , and later the .38/200 calibre Enfield No...

  • Colt M1911 (Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy, Limited use)
  • Colt New Service
    Colt New Service
    The Colt New Service was a double-action revolver made by Colt from 1898 until c.1940. It was adopted by the U.S. Armed Forces in .45 Colt as the Model 1909 U.S. Army, Marine Corps Model 1909, Model 1909 U.S. Navy and in .45 ACP as the Model 1917 U.S. Army...

  • Smith & Wesson M1917 revolver
    M1917 revolver
    The M1917 Revolver was a U.S. six-shot revolver of .45 ACP caliber. It was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1917 to supplement the standard M1911 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol during World War I. Afterwards, it was primarily used by secondary and non-deployed troops...

  • Smith & Wesson Model 10
  • Smith & Wesson Triple Lock
    Smith & Wesson Triple Lock
    The Triple lock, officially the Smith and Wesson .44 Hand Ejector 1st Model 'New Century', is a double action revolver. It was and is considered by many, including handgun enthusiast and expert Elmer Keith, to be the finest revolver ever made....

  • Lancaster pistol
    Lancaster pistol
    The Lancaster Pistol was a multi-barrelled handgun produced in England in the mid-late 19th century, chambered in a variety of centrefire pistol calibres—chiefly .380", .450 Adams, .455 Webley, and .577 calibre....

  • Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
    Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
    The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless is .32 ACP caliber, self-loading, semi-automatic pistol designed by John Browning and built by Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut...

  • Mauser C96
    Mauser C96
    The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...

     (Private purchase by officers)


Rifles
  • Lee-Enfield
    Lee-Enfield
    The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century...

  • Lee-Metford
    Lee-Metford
    The Lee-Metford rifle was a bolt action British army service rifle, combining James Paris Lee's rear-locking bolt system and ten-round magazine with a seven groove rifled barrel designed by William Ellis Metford...

  • Pattern 1914 Enfield
  • Martini-Enfield
    Martini-Enfield
    Martini-Enfield rifles were, by and large, conversions of the Zulu War era .450/577 Martini-Henry, rechambering the rifle for use with the newly introduced .303 British cartridge...

  • Martini-Henry
    Martini-Henry
    The Martini-Henry was a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle adopted by the British, combining an action worked on by Friedrich von Martini , with the rifled barrel designed by Scotsman Alexander Henry...

  • Ross rifle
    Ross rifle
    The Ross rifle was a straight-pull bolt-action 0.303 inch calibre rifle produced in Canada from 1903 until the middle of the First World War....

     (Canadian units)
  • Winchester Model 1894
    Winchester Model 1894
    Winchester Model 1894 is a lever-action rifle which became one of the most famous and popular hunting rifles...

     (Royal Flying Corps, Limited use)
  • Winchester Model 1895
    Winchester Model 1895
    The Winchester Model 1895 is a lever-action repeating firearm developed and manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the late 19th century, chambered for a number of full-size military and hunting cartridges such as 7.62×54mmR, .303 British, .30-03, .30 Army, .30-06, .35 Winchester,...

  • Winchester Model 1907
    Winchester Model 1907
    The Winchester Model 1907 , is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1906 with production ending in 1958. It was fed from a 5 or 10-round capacity, detachable box magazine located immediately forward of the trigger guard...

  • Type 30 rifle
    Type 30 Rifle
    The Type 30 Rifle Arisaka was a bolt-action rifle that was the standard infantry rifle of the Japanese infantry from 1897 to 1905. It was the first rifle in the Arisaka family as well as the first to chamber the 6.5x50mm Arisaka round...

  • Type 38 rifle
    Type 38 rifle
    The is a bolt-action rifle. For a time it was the standard rifle of the Japanese infantry. It was known also as the Type 38 Year Meiji Carbine in Japan. An earlier, similar weapon was the Type 30 Year Meiji Rifle, which was also used alongside it. Both of these weapons were also known as the...

  • Type 38 cavalry rifle
    Type 38 Cavalry Rifle
    The Japanese was a short barreled version of the bolt-action Type 38 rifle, it was used by the Japanese cavalry, engineers and artillery troops during World War II. It entered service in 1905. The rifle was very accurate. The rifle barrel was 310 mm shorter than the standard rifle...

  • Mauser-Vergueiro
    Mauser-Vergueiro
    Mauser-Vergueiro was a bolt action rifle, designed in 1904 by José A. Vergueiro, an infantry officer of the Portuguese Army. It was developed from the Mauser 98 rifle with the introduction of a new bolt system. Outside Portugal, the weapon was also known as the Portuguese Mauser...

  • Periscope rifle
    Periscope rifle
    A periscope rifle was first invented by Sergeant William Beech, a builder's foreman in civilian life, of the 2nd Battalion NSW, Australian Imperial Force, in May 1915...



Machine Guns
  • Vickers machine gun
    Vickers machine gun
    Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...

  • Maxim gun
    Maxim gun
    The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest".-Functionality:...

  • Lewis Gun
    Lewis Gun
    The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...

  • Hotchkiss Mark I
    Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun
    The Hotchkiss M1909 machine gun was a French designed light machine gun of the early 20th century, developed and built by Hotchkiss et Cie. It was also known as the Hotchkiss Mark I and M1909 Benet-Mercie....

  • M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    The Colt-Browning M1895, nicknamed potato digger due to its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute...

     (Canadian units)
  • M1917 Browning machine gun


Shotguns
  • Sawn-off shotgun (British and ANZAC trench raiders, unsanctioned)


Anti-tank weapons
  • Elephant gun


Grenades
  • Grenade, No 1 Hales
    No 1 Grenade
    The Grenade, Hand No 1 was the first British hand grenade used in World War I.-Overview:The Grenade No 1 was designed in the Royal Laboratory and is based on reports of Japanese hand grenades during the Russo-Japanese War by General Sir Aylmer Haldane, who was a British observer of the...

  • Rifle grenades, 2, 3, 4 Hales
    Hales rifle grenade
    The Hales Rifle Grenade is the name for several rifle grenade used by British forces during World War I. All of these are based on the No 3 design.-Operation:...

  • No.s 5, 23, 36 Mills
    Mills bomb
    Mills bomb is the popular name for a series of prominent British hand grenades. They were the first modern fragmentation grenades in the world.-Overview:...

  • No. 6 Grenade
    No. 6 grenade
    The No 6 Grenade is a hand grenade used by the United Kingdom during World War I.The No 6 was a concussion grenade. A variant of it called the "No 7" contained shrapnel, making it a primitive fragmentation grenade. Pulling a loop at the top of the grenade ignited the fuse. Once the loop was pulled,...

  • No.s 8, 9 Double Cylinder Jam Tin
    Jam Tin Grenade
    The Double Cylinder, No 8 and No 9 hand grenades, also known as the "Jam Tin", were early designs used by the British Army in World War I.The Double Cylinder was one of the many grenades designed for British use in the early part of the First World War in response to the failings of the No 1...

  • No. 13 Battye
  • No. 15 Ball grenade
    No. 15 Ball grenade
    -Overview:The No 15 is a time-fused grenade. It is internally fragmented and uses a cast-iron body.To light the grenade, the user has to remove a covering that was on the fuse, then strike an external Brock matchhead igniter against the fuse....

  • No. 27 Smoke Grenade
  • No. 34 Egg grenade


Mortars
  • 2 inch Medium Mortar
    2 inch Medium Mortar
    The 2 inch Medium Trench Mortar, also known as the 2-inch Howitzer, and nicknamed the "Toffee Apple" or "Plum Pudding" mortar, was a British SBML medium trench mortar in use in World War I from mid 1915 to mid 1917...

  • Newton 6 inch Mortar
    Newton 6 inch Mortar
    The Newton 6 inch Mortar was the standard British medium mortar in World War I from early 1917 onwards.-Description:The Newton 6 inch replaced the 2 inch Medium Mortar beginning in February 1917....

  • Stokes Mortar
    Stokes Mortar
    The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE which was issued to the British Army and the Commonwealth armies during the latter half of the First World War.-History:...

  • Livens Projector
    Livens Projector
    The Livens Projector was a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with flammable or toxic chemicals. In the First World War, the Livens Projector became the standard means of delivering gas attacks and it remained in the arsenal of the British Army until the early years of...



Support Guns
  • Vickers-Crayford rocket gun
    1.59 inch Breech-Loading Vickers Q.F. Gun, Mk II
    The 1.59-inch Breech-Loading Vickers Q.F. Gun, Mk II was a British light artillery piece designed during World War I. Originally intended for use in trench warfare, it was instead tested for air-to-air and air-to-ground use by aircraft...



Swords
  • 1897 Pattern
    1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword
    The 1897 Pattern Infantry Officers’ Sword is a straight-bladed, three-quarter basket hilted sword that has been the regulation sword for officers of the line infantry of the British Army from 1897 to the present day.-History:...

  • 1908 and 1912 Pattern Cavalry Swords
    1908 and 1912 Pattern British Army Cavalry Swords
    The 1908 Pattern Cavalry Trooper's Sword was the last service sword issued to the cavalry of the British Army...

  • Claymore
    Claymore
    The term claymore refers to the Scottish variant of the late medieval longsword, two-handed swords with a cross hilt, of which the guards were in use during the 15th and 16th centuries.-Terminology:...



Bayonets
  • M1907 bayonet

 Kingdom of Bulgaria

Handguns
  • Nagant M1895
    Nagant M1895
    The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...


  • Luger P08

  • Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson is the largest manufacturer of handguns in the United States. The corporate headquarters is in Springfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1852, Smith & Wesson's pistols and revolvers have become standard issue to police and armed forces throughout the world...



Rifles
  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1888

  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1890

  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action. It was nicknamed the "Ruck-Zuck" by Landsers...


  • Peabody-Martini
    Martini-Henry
    The Martini-Henry was a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle adopted by the British, combining an action worked on by Friedrich von Martini , with the rifled barrel designed by Scotsman Alexander Henry...


  • Berdan
    Berdan rifle
    The Berdan rifle is a Russian rifle created by famous American firearms expert and inventor Hiram Berdan in 1868. Standard issue in the Russian army from 1869-1891, the Berdan was replaced by the Mosin-Nagant rifle...


  • Turkish Mauser
    Mauser
    Mauser was a German arms manufacturer of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to 1995. Mauser designs were built for the German armed forces...

     rifles

  • Mauser
    Mauser
    Mauser was a German arms manufacturer of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to 1995. Mauser designs were built for the German armed forces...

     M1880 and M1907

  • Mosin-Nagant
    Mosin-Nagant
    The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....


  • M1867 Russian Krnka
    M1867 Russian Krnka
    The M1867 Russian Krnka was a breachloader conversion of the muzzle-loading Model 1857 Six Line rifle musket, similar to the contemporary Snider-Enfield and Tatabatiere conversions. Conversions were carried out at the Tula armoy . The weapon was chambered for a 15mm cartridge.Two main versions were...



Machine guns
  • Maxim gun
    Maxim gun
    The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest".-Functionality:...


  • Maschinengewehr 08
    Maschinengewehr 08
    The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adoption of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim Gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 remained in service until the outbreak of World War II due to shortages of...


 Empire of Japan

Handguns
  • Type 26 Revolver
    Type 26 revolver
    was the first modern pistol adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army. It was developed at the Koishikawa Arsenal and is named for its year of adoption in the Japanese dating system...


  • Nambu pistol
    Nambu pistol
    was a semi-automatic pistol used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy during the First and Second World Wars. The pistol had two variants, the Type A , and the Type 14 .-History:...



Rifles
  • Type 30 rifle
    Type 30 Rifle
    The Type 30 Rifle Arisaka was a bolt-action rifle that was the standard infantry rifle of the Japanese infantry from 1897 to 1905. It was the first rifle in the Arisaka family as well as the first to chamber the 6.5x50mm Arisaka round...


  • Type 38 rifle
    Type 38 rifle
    The is a bolt-action rifle. For a time it was the standard rifle of the Japanese infantry. It was known also as the Type 38 Year Meiji Carbine in Japan. An earlier, similar weapon was the Type 30 Year Meiji Rifle, which was also used alongside it. Both of these weapons were also known as the...


  • Type 38 cavalry rifle
    Type 38 Cavalry Rifle
    The Japanese was a short barreled version of the bolt-action Type 38 rifle, it was used by the Japanese cavalry, engineers and artillery troops during World War II. It entered service in 1905. The rifle was very accurate. The rifle barrel was 310 mm shorter than the standard rifle...


  • Type 44 Cavalry Rifle
    Type 44 Cavalry Rifle
    The Type 44 Cavalry Rifle is a Japanese bolt-action rifle. This rifle is also often referred to as a Type 44 Carbine. It was a development of the Arisaka Type 38 Cavalry Rifle, the main difference being the bayonet is a needle type and it can be folded backwards and locks underneath the barrel...



Swords
  • Tachi
    Tachi
    The is one type of traditional Japanese sword worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan.-History and description:With a few exceptions katana and tachi can be distinguished from each other if signed, by the location of the signature on the tang...



Bayonets
  • Type 30 bayonet
    Type 30 bayonet
    The Type 30 bayonet was designed to be used with the Japanese Type 30 Rifle and later used on the Type 38 Rifle and Type 99 rifle. The weapon was a sword-type bayonet with a 400 mm long blade and an overall length of 514 mm...


 Early Modern France French Republic 

Handguns
  • Modèle 1892 revolver
    Modele 1892 revolver
    The Model 1892 Revolver was a French service revolver produced by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne as a replacement for the MAS 1873 revolver...


  • MAS 1873 revolver
    MAS 1873 revolver
    The service revolver model 1873 Chamelot-Delvigne was the first double action revolver used by the French army. It was produced by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne from 1873 to 1887 in about 337,000 copies. Although soon replaced by the Modele 1892 revolver, it was nevertheless widely used...


  • MAS 1874 revolver
    MAS 1873 revolver
    The service revolver model 1873 Chamelot-Delvigne was the first double action revolver used by the French army. It was produced by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne from 1873 to 1887 in about 337,000 copies. Although soon replaced by the Modele 1892 revolver, it was nevertheless widely used...


  • Ruby pistol
    Ruby pistol
    The self-loading Ruby pistol is best known as a French World War I sidearm, the Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 genre "Ruby". A very international piece of weaponry, it was closely modeled after the American John Browning's M1903 made by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, and was...


  • Star Model 14
    Star Model 14
    The Star Model 1914 was produced by Star Bonifacio Echeverria S.A., and largely an improved version of the Star Model 1908, particularly in terms of ergonomics. This model was chosen by the French Army in 7.65mm Browning calibre, also called the Pistolet automatique Star...


  • FN M1900
    FN M1900
    The FN Browning M1900 is a single action, semi-automatic pistol designed ca. 1896 by John Browning for Fabrique Nationale de Herstal and produced in Belgium at the turn of the century...


  • Colt M1911

  • Colt M1892
    Colt M1892
    The M1892 Colt Army & Navy was the first general issue double-action with a swing-out cylinder revolver used by the U.S. military.-Overview:In 1892 the gun was adopted by the Army in .38 Long Colt caliber, and the revolver was given the appellation New Army and Navy. Initial experience with the gun...



Rifles
  • Lebel Model 1886 rifle
    Lebel Model 1886 rifle
    The Lebel Model 1886 rifle is also known as the "Fusil Mle 1886 M93", after a bolt modification was added in 1893. It is an 8mm bolt action infantry rifle which entered service in the French Army in April 1887...


  • Berthier M1907-15 and M1916
    Berthier rifle
    The Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt-action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II...


  • Berthier carbine
    Berthier carbine
    The Berthier carbine was a French service rifle adopted in 1892, which was widely used during the First and Second World War....


  • Mannlicher Berthier
    Mannlicher Berthier
    The Berthier carbine was a French Bolt-action 8mm carbine which saw service with the French army during the First World War and limited action during the Second World War in all branches of French service other than the infantry...


  • Fusil Automatique Modele 1917
    Fusil Automatique Modele 1917
    The Fusil Automatique Modele 1917 was a semi-automatic, gas-operated, infantry rifle that was placed in service in the French Army during the latter part of World War I. It was chambered in the then-standard 8mm Lebel rimmed cartridge used in other French Army infantry weapons of the time...


  • Meunier rifle
    Meunier rifle
    The Meunier rifle evolved as a part of the program initiated in 1890 by the French military to develop a semi-automatic infantry rifle that would eventually replace the Mle 1886-93 Lebel rifle. Four government research establishments proposed over 20 prototypes...


  • Winchester Model 1907
    Winchester Model 1907
    The Winchester Model 1907 , is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1906 with production ending in 1958. It was fed from a 5 or 10-round capacity, detachable box magazine located immediately forward of the trigger guard...


  • Winchester Model 1910
    Winchester Model 1910
    The Winchester Model 1910 is a blowback operated semi-automatic rifle rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1910 with production ending in 1936. This rifle is fed from a 4-round capacity, detachable box magazine located immediately forward of the trigger guard...


  • Chassepot
    Chassepot
    The Chassepot, officially known as Fusil modèle 1866, was a bolt action military breechloading rifle, famous as the arm of the French forces in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and 1871. It replaced an assortment of Minie muzzleloading rifles many of which were converted in 1867 to breech loading...


  • Fusil Gras mle 1874
    Fusil Gras mle 1874
    The Fusil Gras Modèle 1874 M80 was a French rifle of the 19th century. The Gras used by the French Army was an adaptation to metallic cartridge of the Chassepot breech-loading rifle by colonel Basile Gras. This rifle was an 11 mm caliber and used black powder centerfire cartridges that weighed...



Machine Guns
  • St. Étienne Mle 1907
    St. Étienne Mle 1907
    The St. Étienne Mle 1907 was a French air-cooled machine gun which was widely used in the early years of the First World War. It was not derived from the Hotchkiss machine gun, as often stated erroneously, but was instead a distinctly different mechanical design...


  • Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun
    Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun
    The Hotchkiss M1909 machine gun was a French designed light machine gun of the early 20th century, developed and built by Hotchkiss et Cie. It was also known as the Hotchkiss Mark I and M1909 Benet-Mercie....


  • Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
    Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
    The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun became the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss...


  • Chauchat
    Chauchat
    The Chauchat , was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I. Under the leadership of General Joseph Joffre, it was commissioned into the French Army in 1916. It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia,...



Anti-tank weapons
  • Puteaux SA 18
    Puteaux SA 18
    The Puteaux SA 18 was a French semi-automatic gun, used from World War I onward, primarily mounted on combat vehicles.It was a simple but reliable weapon with a high rate of fire. It was primarily intended to be used against infantry and machine-gun nests, due to its low muzzle velocity which...



Grenades
  • F1 Grenade
    F1 grenade (France)
    The F1 grenade is a hand grenade used by France during World War I and World War II.-Overview:The F1 was a grenade designed during World War I and used by French infantrymen at the time. Originally, the F1 was designed to use a lighter-based ignition system, but later it began using a percussion...



Flamethrowers
  • Schilt
    Flamethrower
    A flamethrower is a mechanical device designed to project a long controllable stream of fire.Some flamethrowers project a stream of ignited flammable liquid; some project a long gas flame. Most military flamethrowers use liquids, but commercial flamethrowers tend to use high-pressure propane and...



Mortars
  • Mortier de 58 mm type 2
    Mortier de 58 mm type 2
    The Mortier de 58 mm type 2, also known as the Crapouillot or "little toad" from its appearance, was the standard French medium trench mortar of World War I.-Combat use:3 types of bomb were available :...



Support Guns
  • Canon d'Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 TRP

 German Empire

Pistols
  • M1879 Reichsrevolver
    M1879 Reichsrevolver
    The M1879 Reichsrevolver, or Reichs-Commissions-Revolver Modell 1879 and 1883, were service revolvers used by the German Army from 1879 to 1908, when it was superseded by the Luger.The two versions of the revolver differ only in barrel length...


  • M1883 Reichsrevolver
    M1879 Reichsrevolver
    The M1879 Reichsrevolver, or Reichs-Commissions-Revolver Modell 1879 and 1883, were service revolvers used by the German Army from 1879 to 1908, when it was superseded by the Luger.The two versions of the revolver differ only in barrel length...


  • Mauser Zig-Zag
    Mauser Zig-Zag
    The Zig-Zag was a single action revolver manufactured by Mauser during the late 19th century. It is chambered in a 6mm calibre round and is fed from a 6 round grooved drum hence the name of the revolver....


  • Luger P08

  • Mauser C96
    Mauser C96
    The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...


  • Beholla pistol
    Beholla pistol
    The Beholla pistol was developed by Becker & Hollander. During World War I, it was a secondary military pistol used by the Imperial German Army. It was manufactured from 1915 until 1918, where, at that point, about 45,000 were produced....


  • Dreyse M1907
    Dreyse M1907
    The Dreyse Model 1907 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Louis Schmeisser. The gun was named after Nikolaus von Dreyse, the designer of the Dreyse Needle Gun...


  • Steyr M1912
    Steyr M1912
    The Steyr M1912 was developed in 1911 by the Austrian firm Steyr Mannlicher by Karl Krnka, based on the basic operating system of the Roth-Steyr M1907. It was developed for the Austro-Hungarian Army and adopted in 1912 as the M1912...


  • Mauser 1910

  • Mauser 1914

  • Bergmann 1896
    Bergmann 1896
    The Bergmann 1896 was a 19th century semi-automatic pistol developed by German designer Theodor Bergmann. A contemporary of the Mauser C96 and Borchardt C-93 pistols, the Bergmann failed to achieve the same widespread success, although Bergmann himself later went on to design one of the earliest...


  • Bergmann-Bayard pistol

  • Schönberger-Laumann 1892

  • Schwarzlose Model 1908
    Schwarzlose Model 1908
    The Schwarzlose Model 1908 was a semi-automatic pistol, designed by Andreas Schwarzlose, released in 1908 in German Empire and produced until 1911.-Operation:The Schwarzlose employs a very distinctive "blow-forward action" operating mechanism...



Rifles
  • Gewehr 71/84
    Mauser Model 1871
    The Mauser Model 1871 adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71 was the first of millions of rifles manufactured to the designs of Paul Mauser and Wilhelm Mauser of the Mauser company.During 1870-71 trials with many different rifles took place, with the "M1869 Bavarian Werder" being the...


  • Gewehr 88

  • Gewehr 98
    Gewehr 98
    The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt action Mauser rifle firing the 8x57mm cartridge from a 5 round internal clip-loaded magazine that was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k. It was hence the main rifle of the German infantry during World War I...


  • Mondragón rifle

  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action. It was nicknamed the "Ruck-Zuck" by Landsers...



Machine Guns
  • Maschinengewehr 08
    Maschinengewehr 08
    The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adoption of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim Gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 remained in service until the outbreak of World War II due to shortages of...


  • Bergmann MG15 nA Gun
    Bergmann MG15 nA Gun
    The Bergmann MG15 was the World War I production version of a prototype machine gun designed in 1910, the brainchild of Theodor Bergmann and Louis Schmeisser. It should not be confused with the similarly designated Rheinmetall MG-15, which was a completely different weapon, whose nomenclature is...


  • Madsen machine gun
    Madsen machine gun
    The Madsen was a light machine gun developed by Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schoubue and proposed for adoption by Captain Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, the Danish Minister of War and adopted by the Danish Army in 1902...


  • Parabellum MG14
    Parabellum MG14
    The Parabellum MG14 was a 7.9 mm caliber World War I machine gun built by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken. It was an adaptation of their Maschinengewehr 08 gun intended for use on aircraft and zeppelins. The MG08's belt-style ammunition feed was enclosed in a drum, the recoil casing was...


  • Parabellum MG17
    Parabellum MG17
    The Parabellum MG17 was a German 8x57mm IS calibre aircraft machine gun by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionswerke from 1916 to 1918.A derivative of the Parabellum MG14, the MG17 first appeared as an observer's gun on aircraft, with a second version for infantry use.-External Links:* *...


  • Gast gun
    Gast gun
    The Gast Gun was a German twin barreled machine gun developed by Karl Gast of Vorwerk und Companie of Barmen, and used during the First World War...



Submachine guns
  • MP18
    MP18
    The MP18.1 manufactured by Theodor Bergmann Waffenbau Abteilung was the first practical submachine gun used in combat. It was introduced into service in 1918 by the German Army during World War I as the primary weapon of the Stosstruppen, assault groups specialized in trench combat...



Anti-tank weapons
  • Elephant Gun

  • Mauser Anti-tank Rifle
    13.2 mm Rifle Anti-Tank (Mauser)
    The Mauser 13 mm anti-tank rifle was the world's first anti-tank rifle, i.e. the first rifle designed for the sole purpose of destroying armored targets and the only anti-tank rifle to see service in World War 1. Approximately 15,800 were produced...


  • MG 18 TuF
    MG 18 TuF
    The Maschinengewehr 18 was a 13 mm variant of the Maxim MG 08. The MG 18 was developed as an anti-tank machine gun and additionally as an anti-aircraft gun.-External links:*...



Grenades
  • Model 24 grenade
    Model 24 grenade
    The Model 24 Stielhandgranate was the standard hand grenade of the German Army from the end of World War I until the end of World War II. The very distinctive appearance led to its being called a "stick grenade", or a "potato masher" in British Army slang, and is today one of the most easily...



Mines
  • Flachmine 17
    Flachmine 17
    The Flachmine 17 was a German landmine mass produced during the First World War. Production of the mine began in 1916 after the appearance of British and French tanks, and by the end of the war over three million had been produced...



Flamethrowers
  • Kleinflammenwerfer
    Kleinflammenwerfer
    The first German man-portable flamethrower was called the Kleinflammenwerfer or "Kleif". Fuel was stored in a large vertical, cylindrical backpack container. High-pressure propellant was stored in another, smaller container attached to the fuel tank. A long hose connected the fuel tank to a lance...


  • Grossflammenwerfer
    Grossflammenwerfer
    In addition to man-portable units, the Germans designed heavy flamethrowers before and during the First World War. The large flamethrower was designed to be used from the trenches. The fuel and propellant containers were too large and heavy for mobility, but the hose could be long enough to be...


  • Wechselapparat
    Wechselapparat
    The Germans introduced another small flamethrower design in 1917 to replace the earlier Kleif. The Wechselapparat had a doughnut-shaped backpack fuel container with a spherical propellant container in the middle. This design was updated during the Second World War to become flamethrower model 40...



Mortars
  • 7.58 cm Minenwerfer
    7.58 cm Minenwerfer
    The 7.58 cm Minenwerfer a.A. was a German First World War mortar.-History:The Russo-Japanese War of 1905 had shown the value of mortars against modern fieldworks and fortifications and the Germans were in the process of fielding a whole series of mortars before the beginning of World War I...


  • 9.15 cm leichte Minenwerfer System Lanz
    9.15 cm leichte Minenwerfer System Lanz
    The 9.15 cm leichtes Minenwerfer System Lanz was a light mortar used by Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I.It was a smooth-bore, breech-loading design that used smokeless propellant...



Support Guns
  • 7.62 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/16.5
    7.62 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/16.5
    The 7.62 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/16.5 was an infantry gun used by Germany in World War I.German field guns had proven too heavy to accompany the infantry in the assault and the Germans resorted to a variety of solutions in an effort to find something that could help the infantry deal with...


  • 7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/20
    7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/20
    The 7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/20 was an infantry gun used by Germany in World War I. It was designed by Krupp to rectify the shortcomings of the 7.62 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/16.5....


  • 7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/27
    7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/27
    The 7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/27 was an infantry gun used by Germany in World War I. It was intended to replace the 7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/20, but only saw limited service....


 Kingdom of Greece

Handguns
  • MAS 1873 revolver
    MAS 1873 revolver
    The service revolver model 1873 Chamelot-Delvigne was the first double action revolver used by the French army. It was produced by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne from 1873 to 1887 in about 337,000 copies. Although soon replaced by the Modele 1892 revolver, it was nevertheless widely used...


  • MAS 1874 revolver
    MAS 1873 revolver
    The service revolver model 1873 Chamelot-Delvigne was the first double action revolver used by the French army. It was produced by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne from 1873 to 1887 in about 337,000 copies. Although soon replaced by the Modele 1892 revolver, it was nevertheless widely used...


  • Steyr Mannlicher M1901
    Steyr Mannlicher M1901
    The M1901 Mannlicher Self-Loading, Semi-Automatic Pistol was an early semi-automatic pistol design.-General features:This pistol is one of the most simple of blow-back semi-automatic pistols ever designed. The lockwork is essentially that of an elementary single action revolver...


  • Ruby pistol
    Ruby pistol
    The self-loading Ruby pistol is best known as a French World War I sidearm, the Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 genre "Ruby". A very international piece of weaponry, it was closely modeled after the American John Browning's M1903 made by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, and was...


  • Nagant M1895
    Nagant M1895
    The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...



Rifles
  • Mannlicher-Schönauer
    Mannlicher-Schönauer
    The Mannlicher-Schönauer is a type of rotary magazine bolt action rifle produced by Steyr-Mannlicher for the Greek Army in 1903 and later was also used in small numbers by the Austro-Hungarian Armies.-Design Characteristics:In the late 19th century, the...


  • Berthier rifle
    Berthier rifle
    The Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt-action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II...


  • Lebel 1886

  • Various Turkish Mauser
    Mauser
    Mauser was a German arms manufacturer of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to 1995. Mauser designs were built for the German armed forces...

     rifles

  • Gras rifle


Machine Guns
  • Schwazlose MG M.07/12
    Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
    The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine-gun, and was used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was also used by the Dutch, Greek and Hungarian armies during World War II...


  • Chauchat
    Chauchat
    The Chauchat , was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I. Under the leadership of General Joseph Joffre, it was commissioned into the French Army in 1916. It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia,...


Pistols
  • Glisenti Model 1910
    Glisenti Model 1910
    The Glisenti Model 1910 was a 9mm calibre semi-automatic service pistol produced by the Italian company Real Factory D'arma Glisenti. It was introduced in 1910 and adopted by the Royal Italian Army, seeing service in World War I and World War II....


  • Bodeo Model 1889
    Bodeo Model 1889
    The Bodeo Model 1889 revolver was invented by Italian firearm designer Carlo Bodeo. It was produced by a wide variety of manufacturers between 1889 and 1925, and was also produced in Spain from 1915 to 1918...


  • Ruby pistol
    Ruby pistol
    The self-loading Ruby pistol is best known as a French World War I sidearm, the Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 genre "Ruby". A very international piece of weaponry, it was closely modeled after the American John Browning's M1903 made by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, and was...


  • Mauser C96
    Mauser C96
    The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...



Rifles
  • Carcano
    Carcano
    Carcano is the frequently used name for a series of Italian bolt-action military rifles and carbines. Introduced in 1891, this rifle was chambered for the rimless 6.5x52mm Mannlicher-Carcano Cartuccia Modello 1895 cartridge. It was developed by the chief technician Salvatore Carcano at the Turin...


  • M1870 Italian Vetterli
    M1870 Italian Vetterli
    The M1870 Vetterli was the Italian service rifle from 1870-1878, when it was replaced with the M1870/87 Italian Vetterli-Vitali variant. The M1870 was a single-shot bolt action rifle chambered for the 10.4mm Vetterli centrefire cartridge, at first with black powder and later with smokeless powder...


  • Berthier rifle
    Berthier rifle
    The Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt-action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II...



Machine Guns
  • Villar-Perosa
    Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun
    The Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun was an Italian double barreled light machine gun designed by Bethel Abiel Revelli, a Major in the Italian Army in 1914. The weapon fired pistol calibre 9 mm Glisenti ammunition, a reduced-power version of the famous 9 mm Para, at the extremely high rate of...


  • Fiat-Revelli Modello 14

  • Perino Model 1908

  • St. Étienne Mle 1907
    St. Étienne Mle 1907
    The St. Étienne Mle 1907 was a French air-cooled machine gun which was widely used in the early years of the First World War. It was not derived from the Hotchkiss machine gun, as often stated erroneously, but was instead a distinctly different mechanical design...


  • Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
    Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
    The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun became the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss...


  • Chauchat
    Chauchat
    The Chauchat , was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I. Under the leadership of General Joseph Joffre, it was commissioned into the French Army in 1916. It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia,...


  • Gardner gun
    Gardner gun
    The Gardner gun was an early type of mechanical machine gun. It had one or two barrels, was fed from a vertical magazine or hopper and was operated by a crank. When the crank was turned, a feed arm positioned a cartridge in the breech, the bolt closed and the weapon fired...


  • Lewis gun
    Lewis Gun
    The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...


  • Vickers machine gun
    Vickers machine gun
    Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...


  • M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    The Colt-Browning M1895, nicknamed potato digger due to its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute...



Submachine Guns
  • Beretta Model 1918
    Beretta Model 1918
    The Beretta Model 1918 was a submachine gun that entered service in 1918 with the Italian armed forces and came with an overhead inserted magazine. Another variant was the Model 1918/30 with the magazine inserted underneath and came with a bayonet...


 Kingdom of Montenegro

Pistols
  • M1870 Gasser
    M1870 Gasser
    The M1870 Gasser was a revolver chambered for 11.2x29.5mm and was adopted by the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry in 1870. It was an open-frame model, with the barrel unit attached to the frame by a screw beneath the cylinder arbor. The arbor pin was screwed into the barrel unit and fitted into a recess in...


  • Smith and Wesson Model 3


Rifles
  • Mosin-Nagant
    Mosin-Nagant
    The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....


  • Berdan Rifle
    Berdan rifle
    The Berdan rifle is a Russian rifle created by famous American firearms expert and inventor Hiram Berdan in 1868. Standard issue in the Russian army from 1869-1891, the Berdan was replaced by the Mosin-Nagant rifle...



Machine Guns
  • Maxim gun
    Maxim gun
    The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest".-Functionality:...


 Ottoman Empire

Handguns
  • Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson is the largest manufacturer of handguns in the United States. The corporate headquarters is in Springfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1852, Smith & Wesson's pistols and revolvers have become standard issue to police and armed forces throughout the world...


  • FN Browning M1903

  • Mauser C96
    Mauser C96
    The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...


  • Pistole Parabellum 1908


Rifles

  • Gewehr 88 (Sent by Germany late in the war)

  • Gewehr 98
    Gewehr 98
    The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt action Mauser rifle firing the 8x57mm cartridge from a 5 round internal clip-loaded magazine that was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k. It was hence the main rifle of the German infantry during World War I...

     (Sent by Germany late in the war)

  • Peabody-Martini

  • Winchester M1866

  • Snider-Enfield
    Snider-Enfield
    The British .577 Snider-Enfield was a type of breech loading rifle. The firearm action was invented by the American Jacob Snider, and the Snider-Enfield was one of the most widely used of the Snider varieties. It was adopted by British Army as a conversion system for its ubiquitous Pattern 1853...



Machine Guns
  • Maxim gun
    Maxim gun
    The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest".-Functionality:...


  • Maschinengewehr 08
    Maschinengewehr 08
    The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adoption of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim Gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 remained in service until the outbreak of World War II due to shortages of...


  • Bergmann MG15 nA Gun
    Bergmann MG15 nA Gun
    The Bergmann MG15 was the World War I production version of a prototype machine gun designed in 1910, the brainchild of Theodor Bergmann and Louis Schmeisser. It should not be confused with the similarly designated Rheinmetall MG-15, which was a completely different weapon, whose nomenclature is...


 Portugal Portuguese Republic 

Pistol
  • Savage Pistol
    Savage Arms
    The Savage Arms Company is a firearms manufacturing company based in Westfield, Massachusetts, with a division located in Canada. The company makes a variety of rimfire and centerfire rifles, as well as marketing the Stevens single-shot rifles and shotguns...


  • Parabellum Pistol


Rifles
  • Mauser-Vergueiro
    Mauser-Vergueiro
    Mauser-Vergueiro was a bolt action rifle, designed in 1904 by José A. Vergueiro, an infantry officer of the Portuguese Army. It was developed from the Mauser 98 rifle with the introduction of a new bolt system. Outside Portugal, the weapon was also known as the Portuguese Mauser...


  • Lee-Enfield
    Lee-Enfield
    The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century...

     (Portuguese forces in the Western Front)

  • Kropatschek
    Kropatschek
    A Kropatschek is any variant of a rifle designed by Alfred von Kropatschek. Kropatschek's rifles used an tubular magazine of his design, of the same type used in the German Mauser Gewehr 1871/84 and the Japanese Type 22 Murata.-Variants:Austria-Hungary:...



Machine Guns
  • Vickers Machine Gun
    Vickers machine gun
    Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...


  • Lewis Gun
    Lewis Gun
    The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...


  • Maxim-Vickers Gun
    Maxim gun
    The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest".-Functionality:...



Mortars
  • Stokes Mortar
    Stokes Mortar
    The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE which was issued to the British Army and the Commonwealth armies during the latter half of the First World War.-History:...


 Kingdom of Romania

Sidearms
  • Steyr M1912
    Steyr M1912
    The Steyr M1912 was developed in 1911 by the Austrian firm Steyr Mannlicher by Karl Krnka, based on the basic operating system of the Roth-Steyr M1907. It was developed for the Austro-Hungarian Army and adopted in 1912 as the M1912...



Rifles
  • Mosin-Nagant
    Mosin-Nagant
    The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....


  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1893

  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action. It was nicknamed the "Ruck-Zuck" by Landsers...



Machine Guns
  • Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
    Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
    The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine-gun, and was used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was also used by the Dutch, Greek and Hungarian armies during World War II...


 Russian Empire

Pistols
  • Nagant M1895
    Nagant M1895
    The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...


  • Mauser C96
    Mauser C96
    The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...


  • Browning M1903

  • Luger P08

  • Smith & Wesson Model 3

  • Colt M1911


Rifles
  • Berdan rifle
    Berdan rifle
    The Berdan rifle is a Russian rifle created by famous American firearms expert and inventor Hiram Berdan in 1868. Standard issue in the Russian army from 1869-1891, the Berdan was replaced by the Mosin-Nagant rifle...


  • Mosin-Nagant
    Mosin-Nagant
    The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....


  • Type 30 rifle
    Type 30 Rifle
    The Type 30 Rifle Arisaka was a bolt-action rifle that was the standard infantry rifle of the Japanese infantry from 1897 to 1905. It was the first rifle in the Arisaka family as well as the first to chamber the 6.5x50mm Arisaka round...


  • Type 38 Rifle
    Type 38 rifle
    The is a bolt-action rifle. For a time it was the standard rifle of the Japanese infantry. It was known also as the Type 38 Year Meiji Carbine in Japan. An earlier, similar weapon was the Type 30 Year Meiji Rifle, which was also used alongside it. Both of these weapons were also known as the...

     (Northern front)

  • Type 38 cavalry rifle
    Type 38 Cavalry Rifle
    The Japanese was a short barreled version of the bolt-action Type 38 rifle, it was used by the Japanese cavalry, engineers and artillery troops during World War II. It entered service in 1905. The rifle was very accurate. The rifle barrel was 310 mm shorter than the standard rifle...


  • Lebel 1886 (Caucasian front)

  • Fedorov Avtomat
    Fedorov Avtomat
    The Fedorov Avtomat was an early assault rifle designed by Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedorov and produced in Russia in 1916. It was the first practical assault rifle to be adopted, and this concept would later become the basis for the first assault rifle to incorporate a modern layout, the StG 44...


  • Winchester Model 1895
    Winchester Model 1895
    The Winchester Model 1895 is a lever-action repeating firearm developed and manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the late 19th century, chambered for a number of full-size military and hunting cartridges such as 7.62×54mmR, .303 British, .30-03, .30 Army, .30-06, .35 Winchester,...


  • Winchester Model 1907
    Winchester Model 1907
    The Winchester Model 1907 , is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1906 with production ending in 1958. It was fed from a 5 or 10-round capacity, detachable box magazine located immediately forward of the trigger guard...


  • Winchester Model 1910
    Winchester Model 1910
    The Winchester Model 1910 is a blowback operated semi-automatic rifle rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1910 with production ending in 1936. This rifle is fed from a 4-round capacity, detachable box magazine located immediately forward of the trigger guard...



Machine Guns
  • M1910 Maxim Gun
    Russian M1910 Maxim
    The PM M1910 was a heavy machine gun used by the Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during World War II. It was adopted in 1910 and was derived from Hiram Maxim's Maxim gun, chambered for the standard Russian 7.62x54mmR rifle cartridge...


  • Vickers machine gun
    Vickers machine gun
    Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...


  • Lewis gun
    Lewis Gun
    The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...


  • Chauchat
    Chauchat
    The Chauchat , was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I. Under the leadership of General Joseph Joffre, it was commissioned into the French Army in 1916. It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia,...


  • Madsen machine gun
    Madsen machine gun
    The Madsen was a light machine gun developed by Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schoubue and proposed for adoption by Captain Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, the Danish Minister of War and adopted by the Danish Army in 1902...


  • M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    The Colt-Browning M1895, nicknamed potato digger due to its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute...



Shotguns
  • Double-barreled shotgun
    Double-barreled shotgun
    A double-barreled shotgun is a shotgun or combination gun with two parallel barrels, allowing two shots to be fired in quick succession.-Construction:...



Grenades
  • Model 1914 grenade
    Model 1914 grenade
    The Model 1914 grenade is a Russian stick concussion grenade that was used during World War I and World War II.-Operation:...



Support Guns
  • 37 mm trench gun M1915
    37 mm trench gun M1915
    37-mm trench gun M1915 was a Russian battalion gun employed in World War I.With World War I switching into a trench warfare phase late in 1914, a need for a highly mobile artillery system to be used against enemy machine gun emplacements and other strongpoints became apparent. In 1915 colonel M....



Swords

 United States

Handguns
  • Colt M1911

  • M1917 revolver
    M1917 revolver
    The M1917 Revolver was a U.S. six-shot revolver of .45 ACP caliber. It was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1917 to supplement the standard M1911 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol during World War I. Afterwards, it was primarily used by secondary and non-deployed troops...


  • Smith & Wesson Model 10

  • Colt New Service
    Colt New Service
    The Colt New Service was a double-action revolver made by Colt from 1898 until c.1940. It was adopted by the U.S. Armed Forces in .45 Colt as the Model 1909 U.S. Army, Marine Corps Model 1909, Model 1909 U.S. Navy and in .45 ACP as the Model 1917 U.S. Army...


  • Colt M1892
    Colt M1892
    The M1892 Colt Army & Navy was the first general issue double-action with a swing-out cylinder revolver used by the U.S. military.-Overview:In 1892 the gun was adopted by the Army in .38 Long Colt caliber, and the revolver was given the appellation New Army and Navy. Initial experience with the gun...


  • Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
    Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
    The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless is .32 ACP caliber, self-loading, semi-automatic pistol designed by John Browning and built by Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut...

     (Used by the Navy)


Rifles
  • M1903 Springfield

  • M1892-99 Springfield
    Springfield Model 1892-99
    The Springfield Model 1892-99 Krag-Jørgensen rifle is a Norwegian-design bolt action rifle that was adopted in 1892 as the standard United States Army military longarm, chambered in U.S. caliber .30-40 Krag. All versions and variants were manufactured under license by the Springfield Armory between...


  • M1917 Enfield

  • Lee-Enfield
    Lee-Enfield
    The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century...

     (AEF
    American Expeditionary Force
    The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I. During the United States campaigns in World War I the AEF fought in France alongside British and French allied forces in the last year of the war, against Imperial German forces...

     soldiers in Commonwealth units)

  • M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

  • Winchester Model Lee 1895
    M1895 Lee Navy
    The Lee Model 1895 was a straight-pull, cam-action magazine rifle adopted in limited numbers by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in 1895 as a first-line infantry rifle...

     (Used by the Navy)

  • Winchester Model 1895
    Winchester Model 1895
    The Winchester Model 1895 is a lever-action repeating firearm developed and manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the late 19th century, chambered for a number of full-size military and hunting cartridges such as 7.62×54mmR, .303 British, .30-03, .30 Army, .30-06, .35 Winchester,...


  • Winchester Model 1907
    Winchester Model 1907
    The Winchester Model 1907 , is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company beginning in 1906 with production ending in 1958. It was fed from a 5 or 10-round capacity, detachable box magazine located immediately forward of the trigger guard...


  • Remington Model 8
    Remington Model 8
    The Remington Model 8 is a centerfire, recoil-operated, semi-automatic rifle designed by John Browning and produced by Remington Arms beginning in 1906.John Browning was granted on October 16, 1900 for the rifle, which he then sold to Remington...


  • Berthier rifle
    Berthier rifle
    The Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt-action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II...

     (AEF
    American Expeditionary Force
    The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I. During the United States campaigns in World War I the AEF fought in France alongside British and French allied forces in the last year of the war, against Imperial German forces...

     soldiers in French units)


Machine Guns
  • M1917 Browning Machine Gun

  • Chauchat
    Chauchat
    The Chauchat , was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I. Under the leadership of General Joseph Joffre, it was commissioned into the French Army in 1916. It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia,...


  • Lewis Gun
    Lewis Gun
    The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...


  • Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun
    Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun
    The Hotchkiss M1909 machine gun was a French designed light machine gun of the early 20th century, developed and built by Hotchkiss et Cie. It was also known as the Hotchkiss Mark I and M1909 Benet-Mercie....


  • Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
    Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
    The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun became the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss...


  • M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
    The Colt-Browning M1895, nicknamed potato digger due to its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute...


  • Vickers machine gun
    Vickers machine gun
    Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...



Shotguns
  • Winchester M1897

  • Winchester M1912
    Winchester Model 1912
    The Winchester Model 1912 is a hammerless slide-action, i.e., pump-action, shotgun with an external tube magazine. Popularly-named the Perfect Repeater at its introduction, it largely set the standard for pump action shotguns over its 51 year high-rate production life...


  • Browning Auto-5
    Browning Auto-5
    The Browning Automatic 5, most often Auto-5 or simply A-5, is a recoil-operated semi-automatic shotgun designed by John Browning. It was the first successful semi-automatic shotgun designed and remained in production until 1998...


  • Remington Model 10
    Remington Model 10
    The Remington Model 10 is a pump-action shotgunwith an internal hammer and tube magazine. It was offered in 12 gauge with barrel lengths from 20 to 32 inches .-Military use:...



Grenades
  • F1 Grenade
    F1 grenade (France)
    The F1 grenade is a hand grenade used by France during World War I and World War II.-Overview:The F1 was a grenade designed during World War I and used by French infantrymen at the time. Originally, the F1 was designed to use a lighter-based ignition system, but later it began using a percussion...


  • Mk 1 grenade
    Mk 1 grenade
    The Mk 1 grenade is a fragmentation hand grenade used by American forces during World War I. According to its designers, it was to be the "simplest", yet most "fool-proof", grenade ever made...


  • Mk 2 grenade
    Mk 2 grenade
    The Mk 2 defensive hand grenade is a fragmentation hand grenade used by the U.S. armed forces during World War II and in later conflicts including the Vietnam War. The Mk II was standardized in 1920 replacing the Mk I of 1917. It was phased out gradually, the U.S. Navy being the last users...


  • Mills bomb
    Mills bomb
    Mills bomb is the popular name for a series of prominent British hand grenades. They were the first modern fragmentation grenades in the world.-Overview:...



Mortars
  • Stokes Mortar
    Stokes Mortar
    The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE which was issued to the British Army and the Commonwealth armies during the latter half of the First World War.-History:...


  • Livens Projector
    Livens Projector
    The Livens Projector was a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with flammable or toxic chemicals. In the First World War, the Livens Projector became the standard means of delivering gas attacks and it remained in the arsenal of the British Army until the early years of...



Support Guns
  • Canon d'Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 TRP


Bayonets
  • M1905 bayonet
    M1905 Bayonet
    The M1905 Bayonet was designed to be used with the .30 caliber U.S. M1903 Springfield rifle. Variants of the M1903 rifle were produced during World War I and World War II by Springfield Armory, Remington Arms, Rock Island Arsenal, and Smith-Corona Typewriter. The blade is 16 inches long, and the...


  • M1917 bayonet
    M1917 Bayonet
    The M1917 bayonet was designed to be used with the US M1917 Enfield .30 caliber rifle, as well as with the Winchester Model 1897 and M12 trench shotguns. The blade was 16 inches long...



Knives
  • Mark I trench knife
    Mark I trench knife
    The Mark I trench knife was an American trench knife designed by officers of the American Expeditionary Force for use in World War I. It had a double edged dagger blade useful for both thrusting and slashing strokes, unlike previous U.S. trench knives such as the M1917 and M1918. The handle is...


 Kingdom of Serbia

Handguns
  • Nagant M1895
    Nagant M1895
    The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...



Rifles
  • Mosin-Nagant
    Mosin-Nagant
    The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....


  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
    The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action. It was nicknamed the "Ruck-Zuck" by Landsers...


  • Berdan rifle
    Berdan rifle
    The Berdan rifle is a Russian rifle created by famous American firearms expert and inventor Hiram Berdan in 1868. Standard issue in the Russian army from 1869-1891, the Berdan was replaced by the Mosin-Nagant rifle...


  • Serbian and Turkish Mauser
    Mauser
    Mauser was a German arms manufacturer of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to 1995. Mauser designs were built for the German armed forces...

     rifles


Machine Guns
  • Maxim Gun
    Maxim gun
    The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest".-Functionality:...


  • Schwazlose MG M.07/12
    Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
    The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine-gun, and was used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was also used by the Dutch, Greek and Hungarian armies during World War II...


  • Chauchat
    Chauchat
    The Chauchat , was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I. Under the leadership of General Joseph Joffre, it was commissioned into the French Army in 1916. It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia,...


Common trench raiding
Trench raiding
Trench raiding was a feature of trench warfare which developed during World War I. It was the practice of making small scale surprise attacks on enemy position. Raids were made by both sides in the conflict and always took place at night for reasons of stealth...

 weapons

  • Trench raiding club
    Trench raiding club
    Trench raiding clubs were homemade mêlée weapons used by both the Allies and the Central Powers during World War I. Clubs were used during nighttime trench raiding expeditions as a quiet and effective way of killing or wounding enemy soldiers. The clubs were usually made out of wood. It was common...

  • Trench knife
    Trench knife
    A Trench knife is a combat knife designed to kill or gravely incapacitate an enemy soldier at close quarters, as might be encountered in a trenchline or other confined area. It was developed in response to a need for a close combat weapon for soldiers conducting assaults and raids on enemy...

  • Pickaxe handle
  • Hatchet
    Hatchet
    A hatchet is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade used to cut and split wood...

  • Brass knuckles
    Brass knuckles
    Brass knuckles, also sometimes called knuckles, knucks, brass knucks, or knuckledusters, are weapons used in hand-to-hand combat. Brass knuckles are pieces of metal, usually steel despite their name, shaped to fit around the knuckles...

  • Entrenching tool
    Entrenching tool
    An entrenching tool or E-tool is a collapsible spade used by military forces for a variety of military purposes. Survivalists, freedivers, campers, hikers and other outdoors groups have found it to be indispensable in field use...

  • Spade
    Spade
    A spade is a tool designed primarily for the purpose of digging or removing earth. Early spades were made of riven wood. After the art of metalworking was discovered, spades were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the advent of metal spades manual labor was less efficient at moving earth,...

  • Mace
  • Fascine knife
    Fascine knife
    The fascine knife was a side arm / tool issued to 17th to 19th century light infantry and artillery. It served both as a personal weapon and as a tool for cutting fascines . It could be straight or curved, double edged or single edged with a sawtoothed back...

  • Billhook
  • Knife bayonet
    Knife bayonet
    A knife bayonet is a knife which can be used both as a bayonet, fighting or utility knife. The knife bayonet became the almost universal form of bayonet in the 20th century due to its versatility and effectiveness...

  • Stiletto
    Stiletto
    A stiletto is a knife or dagger with a long slender blade and needle-like point, intended primarily as a stabbing weapon. The stiletto blade's narrow cross-section and acuminated tip reduces friction upon entry, allowing the blade to penetrate deeply...

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