The world's top four alternative crossbow

The world's top four alternative bows

The bow is a weapon that launches arrows, generally consists of a bow cleave, bowstring, after opening the bow, relying on the elasticity of the bowstring to launch arrows, most of the materials of the bow are metal or wood, the bowstring elasticity of the better material, and the world there are also a number of bows and crossbows in the design of the design of a break with the traditional concepts, which can be referred to as the alternative bows and crossbows. The following four kinds, one is a Mongolian cavalry weapon, a kind of bow arm bending outward, a kind of Chinese bow in the best, a kind of 50 pounds of stone bombs can be shot out more than 200 meters.

Compound bow

Rumored to be the first invention of Ramses II (1304 BC-1237 BC), and since then other areas of the Beijing invention, the bow is made of a mixture of long, thin pieces of wood or bone, because of the laminated method of the power is very large, relatively short compound bow is most suitable for use by cavalrymen, the Mongolian cavalry preferred to use a composite bow, which can be regarded as a weapon of the Mongolian cavalry. The deformation of the composite bow is in the manufacture of the time, so that it is bent forward at both ends, this backward curved bow can produce more power, and requires a lot of physical strength and skill to pull the bow open.

Recurve Bow

A recurve bow is a bow that looks different from a regular longbow from the side; the end of the arm of an unstrung recurve bow curves outward. A recurve bow stores more energy than a straight-armed bow, resulting in a higher kinetic energy of the shot arrow. As a result, recurve bows could be built shorter than normal bows and yet maintain their range. The recurve bow was suitable for cavalry use or for ambushes in the jungle.

The ox-horn bow

The very best of the ancient Chinese bows, and by far the second best of the bows made of modern materials. Ox horn bow by ox horn, bamboo and wood tire, ox tendon, animal glue and other materials after a hundred and ten procedures processed, the technical difficulty is quite high, the production cycle is also very long, the range is also very far. This kind of expensive expensive, usually used by the royal family or nobles, general generals are not qualified to use.

Crossbows

Giant crossbows that use torsion springs to fire projectiles or arrows. In the earliest days it was powered by the torsion generated by two bunches of tensioned horsehair, leather cord or animal tendons, which drove the crossbow arm to drive the bowstring to hurl projectiles or arrows. The Greek crossbows had a sturdy support on which the main beam rested, with two sets of torsion springs on either side of its front end, each of which drove a crossbow arm that was attached to the end of the bowstring, which was centered in a woven mesh bag that held the projectile.

The crossbow has a strong power, the performance of the crossbow can be 1 Talent (Ancient Greek unit of weight, about 26 kilograms) heavy stone projectile thrown 300 yards (1 yard = 0.9144 meters) away. In other words, this crossbow can shoot more than 50 pounds of stone bullets out more than 270 meters, very powerful!