I am wondering what the effect of more modern artillery capabilities would ahve been on the trench warfare of WW1.
- In WW1, artillery had a range of about 8-9 km and low mobility due to mountings and cariages.
- In WW2, range was between 15 and 20 km, and carriages allowed greater mobility, or in some cases gun carriers actually allowed self-propelled mobility of the pieces. Also, radio communication allowed to call in fire support missions on target.
- Modern artillery has ranges over 50 km, is self mobile, has time on taget capability alowwing a single gun to deliver several grenades at the same time onto a spot, high accuracy via GPS etc.
Would trench warfare have even been able to develop with those artillery advances?