WW1 Weaponary and Equipment

For this I have been researching British weaponary and equipment so that my animation will be logical and accurate to this historical subject.

Aliied British Weaponary - Guns -

The Standard British bolt action rifle which used throughout WW1 was the Lee Enfield Rifle.

This rifle was a British Soldiers main weapon, and was estimated that a highly trained British Soldier could fire upto 15 rounds per minute. This particular rifle could maintain very good accuracy of upto 600 metres but could still kill an enemy who was almost 1,400 metres away from them.

The Maxim Machine Gun -

The American inventor, Hiram Maxim moved to London in the 1980's with promise of creating an effective machine gun for the British Army.

Maxim introduced the worlds first machine gun to the British army in a demonstration which showed off the guns capabilities. The Maxim Machine gun could continually fire until the guns whole belt of bullets was used up. In tests, the gun could fire upto 500 bullets per minute which had an equal firerate of about 100 Lee Enfield Rifles.

The Vickers Machine Gun -

In 1912, The British army adopted the Vickers Machine Gun as thier new standars machine gun. This machine gun which was an adaptation of the Maxim Machine Gun produced by the Vickers company.