1898年,美国为了夺取西班牙殖民属地古巴、波多黎各和菲律宾,以支持古巴独立为借口发动了美西战争。这场战争持续了半年左右时间,不仅是美国向外界展示其强大的新兴经济和军事实力的舞台,而且也成为各种新式武器、战术的测试场。交战双方的美国军队和西班牙军队都使用了大量不同的武器,既有老式武器,也有当时最新式的武器,其中在LSA In 1898, in order to seize the Spanish colonial territories of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, the United States launched the U.S.-Spanish war on the pretext of supporting Cuba’s independence. The war lasted about six months or so. It is not only a stage where the United States shows its powerful emerging economy and military capabilities to the outside world, but also serves as a test ground for various new weapons and tactics. Both the U.S. armies and the Spanish armies of the two warring sides used a large number of different weapons, both old-fashioned weapons and the most up-to-date weapons of the time. Among them, the LSA