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The main task of the commander is not only win, but also to keep its soldiers.
To do this, we come up with all sorts of means of protection against bullets and shrapnel.
Often, by the soldiers had to Geek out of hand tools. Simple, but effective.

French trench armor against bullets and shrapnel. 1915.




Sappenpanzer appeared on the Western Front in 1916. In June 1917, capturing several German bullet-proof vests, the Allies conducted a study. According to these documents, the German body armor can stop a bullet rifle at a distance of 500 meters, but its main purpose against shrapnel and debris. The vest can be hung on the back, so on his chest. The first samples collected were less severe than later, with an initial thickness of 2 to 3 mm. The material - silicon alloy steel and nickel.







Such here masochku commander and the driver wore British Mark I to protect the face from shrapnel.



Barricade.





Mobile infantry shield (France).



Pilot helmets gunners. USA, 1918.



USA. Protection for bomber pilots. Bronetrusy.



Different versions of armored shields for police officers from Detroit.



Austrian trench shield that could be worn as a bib.









"Ninja Turtles" from Japan.





Gun shield for caregivers.





Body armor with uncomplicated name "Turtle". I understand that "sex" This thing was not the fighter he was moving it.

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Shovel Shield MacAdam, Canada, 1916. It was supposed dual use: both as blades, and small shield. It was commissioned by the Canadian government a series of 22 000 units. As a result, the device was uncomfortable as a shovel uncomfortable because of too low location loopholes as small shield, and made its way through rifle bullets. After the war, melted down as scrap



I could not pass up such a wonderful stroller (though already the post-war). UK 1938



And finally, "the armored cabin of a public toilet - pepelats." Armored observation post. UK.



Not only sit behind the backboard. Adversary "vykovyrnut" because of the shield what? And then, "necessity is the mother (the soldiers) the mother of invention ... In the course went absolutely exotic means.

French bombs catapult. Medieval technology once again in demand.





Well ... sovseeem slingshot!



But they need to somehow move. Here again entered the system engineering genius and production capacity.

Urgent and rather stupid conversion of any self-propelled mechanism gave rise to sometimes amazing creatures.



April 24, 1916 in Dublin broke out anti-government uprising (Easter Rising - Easter Rising) for the movement of troops on the streets of the British bombard needed at least some armored vehicles.

April 26, just 10 hours experts 3rd Cavalry Regiment backup using workshop equipment Southern Railway in Inchicore, were able to collect the armored car from normal commercial 3-ton cargo gear "Daimler" and ... a steam boiler. Both the chassis and boiler have been delivered to the brewery "Guinness"



About armor-hand car, you can write a separate article, because only limited to one photograph to the overall presentation.



A trivial example is hanging steel panels on the side of the truck for military purposes.



Danish "armored car" made by Gideon Truck 2 T 1917 with armor made of plywood (!).



Another French hack (in this case the service of Belgium) - armored Peugeot. Again, without the protection of the driver, motor, and even the rest of the crew in the front.





And how do you like that kind of "aerotachanka" from 1915?



Or this ...

1915 Sizaire-Berwick "Wind Wagon". Death to the enemies (diarrhea), the infantry will blow.



Later, after WW1 idea aero-carts are not stalled, and was developed and in demand (especially in the snowy expanses of the north of the USSR).

Snowmobiling were made of wood frameless gated enclosure, the front of which was protected by a sheet of bulletproof armor. In front of the case is the separation of management, which is a driver. To monitor the road in front of the inspection there was a gap with the glass blocks from the BA-20. For the Department of Management was fighting compartment, which was mounted on the turret 7, 62-mm tank gun DT provided with a light shield cover. The fire from a machine gun led commander snowmobiles. Horizontal angle of fire was 300 °, vertical - from -14 to 40 °. Ammunition consisted of machine gun ammunition in 1000.



By August 1915, two officers of the Austro-Hungarian army - Hauptmann engineer Romanik and Oberleutnant Fellner, Budapest constructed here is a glamorous armored car, presumably on the basis of a Mercedes car with 95 horsepower engine. He was named the first letters of the names of the creators Romfell. Reservations for 6 mm. Armed with a machine gun was one Schwarzlose M07 / August 12 mm (3000 rounds ammunition) in the turret, buyout could in principle be used against air targets. The car was equipped with radio telegraph Morse code, from the firm of Siemens & Halske. The speed of the machine up to 26 km / h. Weight 3 tons, length 5, 67 m, width 1, 8 m, height 2, 48 m. 2 person crew.



And this monster so pleased Mironov did not refuse myself the pleasure to show it again. In June 1915 began the production of tractor Marienwagen Daimler factory in Berlin-Marienfelde. This truck is available in several versions: a semi-tracked, fully tracked, although the base was a 4-ton truck Daimler.



To break through the fields, barbed wire invented just such senoprovolokokosilku.



June 30, 1915 is another of the prototypes were assembled in the courtyard of a London prison "Wormwood Scrubs" soldiers of the 20th Squadron of the Royal Navy School of Aviation. The basis was taken undercarriage American tractor "Kill Stright" wooden Tracians Track.



In July it on a trial basis established by armored hull of "Delano-Belleville", then - the case of the "Austin" and the tower of "Lanchester".



Tank FROT-TURMEL-LAFFLY, wheeled tank, built on the chassis of road roller Laffly. Protected 7 mm book, weighs about 4 tons, armed with two 8 mm machine guns and mitrailleuse unknown type and caliber. By the way, the photograph is much stronger arms Statement - apparently "hole for a gun" cut through with a margin.

The exotic shape of the body due to the fact that the idea of ​​the designer (the same city Frota), the machine was intended for attacks on the barbed wire, the machine that was supposed to press down his body - in fact monstrous barbed wire, along with machine guns, were one of the main problems for the infantry.



The French have a brilliant idea - to use to overcome the enemy barbed wire small-caliber gun, firing grappling hook. In the photo of the calculations of guns.



Well, so as not only humiliated motorcycles, trying to adapt them to the military action ...

Mototachanka trailer Motosacoche.



Another.







Contact.



Field Ambulance.



Delivery of fuel.



Three-wheeled armored motorcycle, designed for solving intelligence tasks, especially for narrow roads.



Anecdotally it - only "Grillo tracked boat!" Just to drive the alligators on the marshy shores of the Adriatic, postrelivaya torpedoes ... In fact, participating in subversive operations, was shot while trying to sink a battleship "Viribus Unitis". Due to the silent electric motor at night and made his way to the port, using caterpillars moved through protecting booms. But seen in the port security and flooded.



Displacement was of 10 tons, armament - four 450mm torpedo.



But to overcome water obstacles individually developed other means. Such for example as:

Martial waterskiing.



Battle catamaran.



Martial stilts



But this is R2D2. Self-propelled emplacement on electricity. Behind it through the entire field of battle dragged "tail" -cable.



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