Tricks of Trench Warfare (2020)

Re:Tricks of Trench Warfare (2020) by fnord77 on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:42AM (#27501870)

> once the sniper nest was located, call in an artillery strike.

did they have radios? Or would they send a runner?

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Re:Tricks of Trench Warfare (2020) by nine_k on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:47AM (#27501907)

A phone. Field phones were very much a thing during WWI and WWII, with point to point wiring laid down very soon after gaining control over the territory, or even before that.

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Re:Tricks of Trench Warfare (2020) by DyslexicAtheist on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:03AM (#27502025)

also carrier pigeons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon

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Re:Tricks of Trench Warfare (2020) by inglor_cz on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:42PM (#27506518)

In the pre-transistor times, radios were heavy and used a lot of energy. Even in WWII, field radios weighed about 35-40 pounds. A soldier with a radio could not carry a lot of other equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-300

Vacuum tubes are a clumsy technology.

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