A trebuchet [nb 1] (French: trébuchet) is a type of catapult [5] that uses a rotating arm with a sling attached to the tip to launch a projectile. It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder. The design of a trebuchet allows it to launch projectiles of greater weights and further distances than that of a traditional ...

A catapult is a ballistic device used to launch a projectile a great distance without the aid of gunpowder or other propellants – particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines. [1]

2025年1月14日 · Catapult, mechanism for forcefully propelling stones, spears, or other projectiles, in use mainly as a military weapon since ancient times. Nearly all catapults operated by a sudden release of tension on bent wooden beams or of torsion in …

It is commonly depicted as a catapult with a bowl, bucket, or sling at the end of its throwing arm. Similar to the catapult, but uses a swinging arm to launch projectiles. It is usually considered to be stronger than the catapult. [4] An oversized gastraphetes, a composite bow placed on a stand with a stock and a trigger.

2021年1月22日 · A catapult functioned by releasing stored potential energy in order to throw a projectile, most commonly a stone or rock. Catapults could also fire flaming projectiles, and even rotting carcasses of animals, which could be used to spread disease and lower morale in a …

2018年12月17日 · The catapult is an ancient war machine and a siege weapon used in ancient and medieval times. In Greek, the word catapult means "to throw into." Catapults used tension, torsion and gravity to throw heavy projectiles at enemy targets and could hurl large stones of up to 500 pounds more than 300 feet.

The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances. Some catapults could throw stones weighing as much as 350 pounds for distances greater than 300 feet.

For nearly 1,700 hundred years the catapult was the most feared weapon of war across Europe. First appearing in the 4th century BC the catapult was designed to easily increase the effective range of armies to allow for prolonged sieges and engagements over defensive walls.

2014年11月27日 · The Catapult worked alongside the Trebuchet as a medieval siege weapon in the middle ages. The Catapult was used to launch projectiles a great distance, and remains one of the most effective medieval weapons during warfare. Catapults were mainly used to lay siege to castles and fortifications during the medieval period.

2019年5月30日 · Descriptions of Roman sieges of fortified cities invariably feature siege engines, the most familiar of which are the battering ram or aries, which came first, and the catapult (catapulta, in Latin). Here is an example from the first century A.D. Jewish historian Josephus on the siege of Jerusalem: " 2.