| WWII Weapons: As the war developed, so did the | | | | to be created, they had an sound mechanism on |
| weapons used throughout it. From the straight | | | | them that made them make a high pitched noise as |
| forward rifle, right down to the development of the | | | | it dropped from the sky so civilians knew when one |
| nuclear bomb, weapons were developed to try to | | | | was coming. The V2 rocket was later created and |
| gain an advantage over the opposition. | | | | did not require the large ramps to launch from. These |
| The Second World War is normally credited for | | | | are far more like the heavy guided missiles we have |
| bringing into being the stable version of the hand held | | | | today, launching from a standing up position and are |
| machine gun. While used in the World War I, the | | | | accredited for the first steps of putting a man on |
| machine gun, otherwise known as the Gatlin gun, was | | | | the moon. |
| very inaccurate and couldn't be moved about. Yet | | | | The final most significant weapon development of |
| with the need for development in World War II, | | | | World War 2 was the nuclear bomb, created by the |
| machine guns were manufactured smaller and the | | | | USA and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is |
| creation of submachine guns meant that they could | | | | normally referred to as the weapon that ended the |
| be carried by even infantry troops. During that time | | | | war. Bombs were used in great numbers throughout |
| most of the soldiers started toting the new | | | | the 6 years, yet none of them were anywhere near |
| submachine guns. | | | | as powerful as the atomic bomb that the USA used. |
| Another weapons development in world war 2 were | | | | People to this day still argue whether or not it was |
| the infamous V1 and V2 rockets. The V1 was more | | | | ethically correct to have even used it to end the |
| commonly referred to as the Doodlebug. It was the | | | | war, yet it accomplished its purpose and goes to |
| first ever guided missile and was fired with the aid of | | | | show how far technology can advance through times |
| ramps from Germany in 1944 and 1945. Developed | | | | of war. The bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima |
| by the German Luftwaffe, these "vengeance" | | | | and Nagasaki caused some of the worst combined |
| weapons were feared throughout the entirety of the | | | | casualties in any of the world wars. The shear |
| blitz. Not only were these the first pilot less missiles | | | | numbers that died in the hundreds of thousands. |