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| 50 mins ago | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 0 | |
| 8 hours ago | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | Agree with @Cadence that the whole point of a crossbow is that it lets you put in energy relatively slowly, store it, and then release it all at once. But if you're already storing the energy that would automatically draw the string somehow, you may not need the bowstring to store the energy at all - you're just turning one form of potential energy into another. | |
| 9 hours ago | comment | added | Navicula | Not a solution for a single semi-automatic re-arming crossbow, but the real-life solution to "how to shoot more arrows / bolts faster" was simply to have multiple shooters, working in pairs or threes, so that one is aiming and firing while another reloads. Thus the group, as a whole, is pseudo-semi-automatic. | |
| 9 hours ago | answer | added | Pica | timeline score: 1 | |
| 15 hours ago | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 2 | |
| 20 hours ago | comment | added | Cadence | @JBH Air rifles date to ca. 1580 and saw considerable use in war, so while anachronistic for a da Vinci type, it would be less anachronistic than many things people are willing to credit to fictional da Vincis (tanks, helicopters). But yes, it was simpler and easier (and done) to simply launch the projectile directly without using a bow. | |
| 20 hours ago | answer | added | Crowley | timeline score: 4 | |
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| yesterday | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 12 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Monty Wild♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | JBH | @Escapeddentalpatient. Story canon from VanHelsing (2004) is that the weapon worked on compressed gas. I'm just not sure if even by the end of the Medieval period (~1450ce) that was possible. But a better question is what's the point? If you have the energy to draw the bowstring, you have the energy to directly launch the bolt... right? | |
| yesterday | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ |
You want medieval tech and then put a video of an electrically driven crossbow?
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| yesterday | answer | added | Kilisi | timeline score: 2 | |
| S yesterday | history | suggested | user139480 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Grammar, capitalization, and some more specific tags (weapons and medieval) were added.
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| yesterday | answer | added | g s | timeline score: 2 | |
| yesterday | answer | added | Escaped dental patient. | timeline score: 8 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Gault Drakkor | It takes energy to arm a bow. Where is that energy coming from? In firearms the energy is bled off from a fired round to cycle in the next round. Once you have a energy supply the mechanism is easier. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | The video you linked had an impossible mechanism, the string cocked without any energy being put into it - it was purely for a fantasy film with no realistic prospect of working. I.e "no, can't be done" as JBH says. If there's another way of doing it, we'll find it. | |
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| yesterday | history | edited | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S yesterday | history | asked | Karan Damera | CC BY-SA 4.0 |