The SMS Albatross was a German mine cruiser, which emerged from the experience of the Russo-Japanese War in dealing with mines as offensive weapons.
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Mine cruiser SMS Albatross (1907)
Coastal Defense Ship SMS Ägir
The Coastal Defense Ship SMS Ägir belonged to the Siegfried class and was the last ship of this class which was built. During the First World War, the ship was used only for security purposes and took part in any naval battle.
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Large combat car K-Modell
Even before the completion of the first assault tank car A7V requested the chief of motoring at the Ministry of War on March 31, 1917 means for the development of a large car K model to provide. On June 28, 1917, the project was approved and ordered 10 vehicles.
The requirements and dimensions of the chariot...
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Armored car Oberschlesien
In the course of the development and testing of heavy armored vehicles such as the A7V, the lack of potential applications and the clumsiness of such vehicles became apparent. So it came that in the course of the year 1918 several concepts for small and maneuverable armored personnel carriers of the highest army command were...
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Light combat car I to III
With the successes of the light French Renault FT17 chariots, the Army High Command has come to realize that for a fast war and the exploitation of the momentum of an offensive, fast combat vehicles are much better suited than the slow and lumbering assault tanks. For this purpose, the demand for such a vehicle...
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Armored car A7V (Sturmpanzerwagen A7V)
The Armored car A7V was the first and only in the German Empire mass-produced armored car, which was used at the front and serve in response to the emerging British Mark I tanks. However, the development and production came too late to be used effectively.
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24-cm fast-charging cannon “Theodor Karl”
The 24-cm fast-charging cannons were originally intended as guns for the battleships of the Kaiser Friedrich III class and Wittelsbach class. After the outbreak of the First World War, however, many of the mounted battleships were no longer produced and the Navy gave the now freed guns to the army to rebuild it as artillery.
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42 cm gamma mortar “Dicke Bertha”
The 42-cm gamma mortars were manufactured by Krupp to meet the needs of the General Staff for guns capable of destroying the heavy fortresses in Belgium and France.
Under the disguise short naval cannon 1909, the first mortar of this caliber was presented. After the first test runs and the improvement of the ammunition, the first...
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30.5-cm heavy coastal mortar
As the fortifications on the Belgian and French sides were increasingly reinforced by concrete with iron bars, the artillery board of examiners was looking for better weapons to effectively combat these fortifications in case of war.
The developments lasted until 1893, the further testing phases then followed until 1896, until 1897 the first heavy mortars were...
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21-cm mortar 10 + 21-cm mortar 16
1910 saw the introduction of the 21-cm mortar 10, which replaced the obsolete 21-cm mortar 99 which lacked a recoil system. During the First World War, some variants of the mortar were also equipped with a protective shield and for siege operations special ammunition was made for the mortar, which should conquer the heavy concrete...
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