Timeline for What would have been required for rockets to have dominated instead of cannons?
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| Jul 31, 2021 at 12:53 | vote | accept | Adam Reynolds | ||
| Jun 8, 2021 at 0:40 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | @MikeSerfas, The battle in said well-known song was one in which those rockets proved utterly ineffective and the side firing them retreated, having failed at their attack,, so I don't see how that supports the point | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 18:25 | answer | added | Demigan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 11:34 | answer | added | OT-64 SKOT | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 7:25 | comment | added | Mike Serfas | Rockets were mentioned in a well-known song from a battle in 1814. In 19th-century Britain, 20th-century Germany, or 21st-century Gaza, wherever the appearance of doing battle would suffice, poorly targeted rockets seemed apt for the task. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 4:32 | answer | added | GrumpyYoungMan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 4:30 | answer | added | sdfgeoff | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 0:41 | comment | added | MolbOrg | @AlexP early invention of holy Zarin and RPG like launch systems could be a plague against old ways of warfare. I mean it not necessarly correct to say it could not be useful prior 1950, it played some role even at ww2. They played with chemicals at ww1 and delivery system was a problem, a rocket is gentlier on a canister. The question asks what it requires, sure it requires lethality | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 0:13 | comment | added | AlexP | Rockets were no match for cannon before very very recent times. Sorry, but this is asking for an impossible situation. At any time before the 1950s there was no way to make a rocket even remotely as efficient at killing enemies, crumbling walls and sinking ships as a cannon. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 23:41 | comment | added | MolbOrg | A lot, but higher letality for the same effort/energy used to make them and all that. It was tried as replacement of arrows, look mythbusters quite interesting case | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 23:24 | comment | added | PcMan | There are many pros and cons between cannons and rockets. But it really boils down to one thing: gunpowder rockets are inaccurate, no matter how carefully you make them. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 23:24 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | At what point in history in what country? After all, they pretty much did in China, and do internationally at present. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 22:39 | history | asked | Adam Reynolds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |