Submarines
Submarines in WWI
The weapon is a Submarine, in WWI it was called a U-boat by the Germans. This was short for Unterseeboot. But today its simply called submarine. The Submarine was first built in Germany by Cornelis Drebbel in 1620. He lived in the Netherlands.
The U-Boat was invented as a way to take war to a new level, under water. It was also used as a greater purpose of taking down enemy ships carrying supplies to soldier or just carrying civilians. |
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In WW1 U-Boats were mostly used in Germany, this is where they were the biggest threat.
Impact and Consequences of the Submarine
The overall impact of the submarine on WWI was that It advanced the way people fight in the water, by giving them a way to cause mass destruction in the water.
The major influence on the war was huge because now you can take down ships without ever being seen it gave people a huge fear or traveling by sea. It was also a huge problem for Armies trying to get supplies to their side by sea because they could get blown up.
This weapon did not affect the soldier on the front lines as much as sailors in the Navy because the U-Boat or submarine could only be used in or under the water.
This Weapon did lot to affect the warring nation by bringing the fight to places off of land.Another way this affected the warring nations, was if you were trying to get supplies to your army by going through the water you could risk getting blown up.
This did not affect the civilians besides the fact that their loved ones could be killed out on sea.
Positive and negative effects of Submarines.
Positive: It also got the Navel fight in the ocean to a much higher level.
Negative: Threat was great to every day life of the sailors. Connections to Today
The modern day example of my weapon is now called the submarine,its had many improvements such as now it can go deeper than ever and even find ships that have sunk, its still the same concept as it was over 100 years ago.
It has improved since World War 1 in many ways it can now go down over 800 feet. They can now also do amazing things such as finds sunken ships that we have never been able to discover due to the limited technology,but we can do it now.
This weapon is now majorly used by the navy. For a number of different reasons one being that they can attack enemies without ever being seen.
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