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Sanitation (more men died from disease than by bullets); the rifle/pistol metallic CARTRIDGE was the biggest new item. Today's cartridges are only about 150 years old. And yet firearms have been around for well over 500 years. Cartridges went from just powder and ball, to paper cartridges, to today's metallic cartridges. Metallic cartridges also enabled fighting men (sailors at sea, marines, as well as soldiers) to fire their weapons in the rain, in the wind, and damp areas in general; plus allowed the invention of repeating rifles and machinguns. Metallic cartridges led to rapid fire cannons, for both naval and land forces. The invention of metallic cartridges, siting the above; led to a change in tactics on the battlefield and at sea; no more mass infantry attacks (aka human wave attacks). The machine-gun led to aerial warfare; machineguns mounted on airplanes. Added to the metallic cartridge, were: Airplanes, Tanks, Submarines, Chemical Warfare, and then finally nuclear weapons.

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