’Mobile’ Shields (WWI Weird Tech)

Play Call of War for FREE on PC or Mobile: 💥 Receive an Amazing New Player Pack, only available for the next 30 days! Thanks to Call of War for sponsoring this video There was a tendency to make big, strong and heavy shields that could protect a soldier’s entire body. It also had to be able to be moved around the battlefield. The only solution was to put wheels on them. These were to be known as mobile shields. Their purpose was to provide cover to one or several soldiers that were advancing across the field or no-man’s land. The idea of shields on wheels was actually born a few decades earlier, during the Cuban War, when US troops used the first movable shields. The idea was adopted by the British and French armies and brought into service during WW1. Even though all designs included heavy steel plates that were capable of withstanding small arms fire, their use was questionable in reality.