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Post by silverdragon on Apr 4, 2016 8:19:10 GMT
Can you fire a missile, spear, something "else" that isnt circular in shape from a Cannon....
Reason I ask, I have reason to believe that the ancient Asian wars between Korea and China, the Koreans may have had a "Turtle" shaped ship with spiked roof to prevent ship-to-ship fighters jumping on it, and had the ability to fire a spear-come-missile with Fins on the back to guide it from deck mounted cannon...
Is this even possible?.
Think "Mortar" shape missile here and you may be on the right shape.
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Post by the light works on Apr 4, 2016 11:05:33 GMT
Can you fire a missile, spear, something "else" that isnt circular in shape from a Cannon.... Reason I ask, I have reason to believe that the ancient Asian wars between Korea and China, the Koreans may have had a "Turtle" shaped ship with spiked roof to prevent ship-to-ship fighters jumping on it, and had the ability to fire a spear-come-missile with Fins on the back to guide it from deck mounted cannon... Is this even possible?. Think "Mortar" shape missile here and you may be on the right shape. there are paintings from that era that appear to show spearlike missiles fired from cannons. of course, this must be taken in consideration of the fact that most painters of the period probably never saw an actual battlefield and took a lot of artistic license. |
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Post by Cybermortis on Apr 5, 2016 8:36:35 GMT
The original types of "cannon" used in China were basically pots that fired arrows or spears. Keep in mind that the power used was of low quality, trying the same thing with later types of powder would turn the arrow or spear into splinters. As MB showed trying to fire a wooden peg leg out of a cannon in one of the pirate specials.
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Post by silverdragon on Apr 5, 2016 8:49:46 GMT
You have a point....
Early powder provided more of a "push" rather than a blast.
Perhaps we need to look at all of the recent threads in this section "With new eyes", in that the powder being used was maybe less than a quarter as powerful as the humble black-powder we expect today?... maybe even less?.. and in the case of confined rocketry, they engineered it to a slow-burn rather than explosion?...
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