Timeline for What would have been required for rockets to have dominated instead of cannons?
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| Jun 6, 2021 at 17:40 | comment | added | Demigan | Mythbusters tested one and had some reasonable accuracy for their rocketartillery. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 17:38 | comment | added | John | Add power, the same explosive is going to deliver far more energy firing a gun than split up an a rocket an payload. Historically they did not have high power explosives to work with so this was very important. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 17:18 | history | edited | GrumpyYoungMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2021 at 15:56 | comment | added | GrumpyYoungMan | @sdfgeoff Good point, I should have been more clear that I was thinking of explosive warhead equipped military rockets, specifically von Geissler's wooden rocket experiments containing 16-lb warheads described here: books.google.com/… | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 15:50 | comment | added | GrumpyYoungMan | @PcMan I would suggest you re-read the question, which is about how rockets as a weapon could have dominated *historically*. The whole point is that they couldn't even at the advent of the early metal bodied rockets like the Congreve rocket. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 12:20 | comment | added | PcMan | " A rocket requires ".... Take used toilet roll. stuff the tube with gunpowder. Jam a rock into the one end. set the other end on fire. That is a rocket. ... A rocket does not need to be complex. A cannon does. even if you go mythbuster and make one from a log with a hole in it. Your example compares a 1600's cannon firing solid shot with a fuzed explosive warhead on a fabricated-metal rocket. Not a fair comparison! | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 4:41 | comment | added | sdfgeoff | Note that old-school rockets (aka ancient china old-school) were made using a ... paper tube rather than a metal one. Some other cultures (Laos) seem to have used bamboo for rocket bodies as well | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 4:38 | history | edited | GrumpyYoungMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2021 at 4:32 | history | answered | GrumpyYoungMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |