Joshua Levine

And if you think about the developments that have been made, so this is a time of incredible development in terms of weaponry.

So what were some of these developments?

Well, in terms of artillery, guns didn't have to be recalibrated.

In the old days, they would jump backwards and you'd have to mount them, set them up again.

Yeah.

Didn't have to do that now.

So, you know, your rate of fire was so much quicker and also, you know, the power, the strength of them.

You know, I was trying to work it out the other day that one of the, you know, the stock field gun, British field gun, the 18 pounder, I think you could, what could it fire to?

It could fire, if you put it in Charing Cross, I think I'm right in saying it could hit gold as green.

Not that you'd want to, but you could.

And, and even the machine guns, you know, the, the, the development of the machine guns, you know, you had the Vickers gun, which was the heavy gun on British side, the Lewis gun, which was the, the light machine gun could be carried by one man.

It could be fired from the shoulder, fired from the hip or set up on a bipod.

You know, that could, that could reach Camden town.

I worked out.

You know, these were, and firing hundreds of rounds a minute.

And if you look at communications, for example, field telephones, which relied on wires.

much easier to go backwards.

You know, if you're advancing, you basically lose communication.

The developments in defenses like barbed wire, which could channel people into killing zones as they came forward.

All of these developments were really helping the defenders.