“What’s the deal with trebuchet memes?” someone recently asked Reddit’s “out of the loop” forum. If you’re similarly out of the loop about the online resurgence of middle ages siege machines, don’t ...

Without any sort of restrictions on designs for trebuchets, these medieval siege weapons are known to send 90 kilogram projectiles over 300 meters. The egg-launching trebuchet contest that ...

Throughout the history of combined arms, artillery has played a key role in supporting the infantry. Commanders laying siege to fortified cities would call upon their engineers to identify weak points ...