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Saturday, December 25, 2021
That's some interesting engineering
2 comments:
markm
said...
That's impressive, but "pirate cannon" is BS. I assume that refers to the naval guns used from the era of Francis Drake to the era of Jean Lafitte - muzzle-loading smooth bores mounted in wooden carriages. They did not have the giant shock absorber-style recoil absorbers you see here. Without those, they had to leave the carriages free to run back from the recoil, with ropes running out to add to the friction and restrain the carriage from crashing through the other side of the ship. They fired solid round shot, but the effect on the target appears to be from explosive shells.
2 comments:
That's impressive, but "pirate cannon" is BS. I assume that refers to the naval guns used from the era of Francis Drake to the era of Jean Lafitte - muzzle-loading smooth bores mounted in wooden carriages. They did not have the giant shock absorber-style recoil absorbers you see here. Without those, they had to leave the carriages free to run back from the recoil, with ropes running out to add to the friction and restrain the carriage from crashing through the other side of the ship. They fired solid round shot, but the effect on the target appears to be from explosive shells.
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