How were medieval guns loaded and fired?
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Watch the loading and firing of a replica medieval gun. This video was filmed on location at the Royal Armouries Fort Nelson, near Portsmouth, UK. The replica gun is loaded and fired by Nicholas Hall, Keeper of Artillery, with postgraduate researcher Dan Spencer to help.
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“Ear defenders” is what I’m going to call earplugs from now on.
It's the brand name
yerroc still a cool term.
@@josiahricafrente585 yep
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We used to call them mufflers.
Thanks for this - I finally understand how James II of Scotland was killed by a wedge from an exploding cannon in 1460. I never understood where the wedge was supposed to go.
He should've said "you may fire when ready"
thanks for using the real sound of the cannon too, sounded awesome
Now Imagine 450 men doing that at the same time on the Mary Rose(yes I know It had 500 crew some of them were archers)
Doing what at the same time?
@@exocetmm38 oh right!
I'm just curious since the Mary Rose crew consisted of 200 sailors, 185 soldiers and 30 gunners.
So to get 450 to do "that", you'd have to have some POWs joining in as well.
@@exocetmm38 Your parents being your siblings is actually impossible, but stuff like that is probably common in your family so I forgive you for not knowing how family relates to one another.
@@exocetmm38 If your family tree didn't look like tumble weed I'm sure you'd be able to figure out why it's impossible and perhaps fix your grammar too.
@@exocetmm38 It's not my native tongue either.
This whole thing started with you not understanding that I actually got your lame joke, and even repeated it to say that what "that" is, was besides the point because my actual contention was the crew size mentioned.
So I don't really care what you're implying because I'm smart as fuck, and you're so inbred you don't even know how family relations work.
2:10
BANG
.......aaaaaaaaa!
Amazing how this technology existed in the 15th century. Not so different from a modern cannon.
Actually its still very different just loading a metal ball and put gunpowder, modern cannons use a bullet shaped shell containing the gunpowder, and hav rifled bores, modern cannons have 10 times the accuracy 100x the range and dozens of times the power
I still don't think that's much different from the main idea of propelling a projectile forward at high speeds and high power using a fast burning material inside a confined chamber.@@jumanuman7311
2:11 you just nailed an entire school field trip by the sound of it
Imagine being someone being this casual during a war.
I always thought cannon from that period were exclusively muzzle loaders.
Breach loaders were actually fairly common early on, meaning a lot of early cannons actually had almost modern rates of fire. The problem was short rage and a tendency to explode, especially as more powerful powders started to be made. Muzzle loaders were much stronger, and so could hit harder, further out, without nearly as high a chance of killing their crews.
@@nikolai60 Yes exactly. The nature of cannon warfare had it that range and destructive capability was more valuable than rate of fire so that's where the arms race went. Which makes a lot of sense because 1 They are used in siege warfare so if the attacker could shoot the castle out of range of their cannons, its game over. 2. In a pitch battle it takes a lot of time to set up the guns, so if you could make them have to set up their low range cannons whilst in range of yours, it's kind of a bad time for them.
Basically if you dont have the longer range cannons, you might as well not have cannons.
When the conquistadors first used these against the Myans, they must have been in shock from the sound and devastation.
Conquistadores fielded Tiller Culverins like this instead of Trunion cannons. didn't such cannons become available aready by this time??
@@DiscothecaImperialis I remember reading that they had some type of small cannon. Cortez only had 300 conquistadors in his expedition force, and they had to go through heavy jungle so wouldn't have been able to take anything larger than these.
how about the canon size?How much blackpowder filled in to open fire？
Not seeing the muzzle, I'm left to guess around a four-pounder, which would take about a pound/pound-and-a-half of black powder.
Really BIG guns of the time would shoot stone balls weighing hundreds of pounds; nowadays, those gunstones decorate castles and manor houses.
Oh
No wonder that those contraptions could be just as dangerous for those behind it as for those in front.
i never knew breech loaders where so old..
Perfect for Home defense
"the cannon fires", a kid in the back just dies
any idea of range?
Imagine 3 gunsmiths goofing around at the start of a battle
They get paid more than a month's pay every week
Their experience is unknown to others so they can bullshit about why they weren't doing anything in the field
Have the power to put a hole through a nobleman whenever they find it amusing
Can't afford even mail
Spend their elevated earnings on hard spirits and brass ornaments for their piece
Truly a whacky time to be alive
Then there was the risk of being captured and having your body pressed against your own guns muzzle
Or them bidding a higher pay than the lord you previously served
It is an ancient cannon called "CETBANG" which is similar to the work of Majapahit and the Muslim Kingdom of Demak from the Indonesian island of Java.
This weapon was first made by the Mongols, the Mongol invasion of any where to take this weapon anywhere. Europe and Indonesia are among the many areas under attack
And that's also what brought this weapon to Indonesia and Europe. In Europe the name is swivel gun, in Indonesia it is called cetbang
No, the "cetbang" is a somewhat later model than this. Both the carriage and the shape of the castings show that the breech-loading kind of Javanese "cetbang" were predominantly based on 16th-century Middle-Eastern or European models. Earlier mentions of the "cetbang" probably referred to even simpler muzzle-loaded weapons, either Chinese fire lances or Western stick guns.
@@LafayetteCCurtis The early, pre-1460 cetbang is similar to Yuan dynasty cannon. See here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetbang
And here
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Java
@@kameradhazel9480 No, Mongolian weapons were different and they are not breech loaded. You can literally read it here
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetbang
it's a cetbang cannon,it used by malayyan kingdom against Portuguese in malacca
Different, breechloading cetbang is modeller after Turkish prangi cannon. Before 1460, cetbang is shaped like Chinese and Mongol cannon. Only after 1460 they refer to breech-loading swivel gun
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetbang
Someone is trying to use cannon when no one is watching when everyone is talking they go with the river flow they go with current then they aim the cannon at you and your team then try to promote a warheads
i did not saw the cannon ball
He said they weren't using a projectile. In other words they couldn't use a cannon ball.
@@christopherd2100 imagine if they use the cannonball
And they say guns are banned in the UK
Safety First.
Look like a giant version of a Japanese arquebuse pistol.
You mean to tell me we could of had laser weapons by now?
was this the original inspiration behind the self containing cartridge?
Cetbang canon of majapahit ...??
Don't claim it, Indonesian -_-
"Cetbang" itself is from China. In the west, they call it as swivel cannon. Open breech swivel cannon.
And because China have Silk Road route, they also sell their guns to the west and Middle East.
It's all Chinese-made.
@@DBT1007 yeah almost everything is made in China 😄
Uhh. Nope. It's more complicated than that. The Chinese junk was originally copied from earlier Southeast Asian ships (see P.Y. Manguin's research for this), acquired some distinctly Chinese developments during the Song dynasty, and _then_ this improved Chinese version was copied back by Southeast Asian maritime nations during the Song, Yuan, and early Ming eras.
And I'm actually pretty convinced that the "cetbang" gun came from the west (the Middle East or India) through the Indian Ocean trade rather than from China. The breechloading guns found or preserved from the early modern period in Indonesia tend to have more distinctly European or Western Asian construction features rather than Chinese ones.
Chet bang majapahit kingdom
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the boy's skin got wet!
Catbang majapahit
It's Cetbang
No, early cetbang wasn't a breechloader. It's muzzleloader similar to Chinese cannon. Only after 1460 breechloading cetbang is developed, after the contact with Arab traders carrying Turkish prangi cannons.
@@cicak2404 after Mongolian lose invade Java, Mongolian dropped a black powder weapon. So they decided to make this
@@Ligma76714 Not really. You should read scientific journal about cetbang, not only internet articles.
@@cicak2404 I know, but in Southeast Asian history books the cetbang is used in 1293-1527 AD, during the Majapahit era
@@Ligma76714 Which book? Indonesian-made books that mentioned cetbang in it did not use scientific journal as reference. Non-Indonesian/foreign books does not even mention cetbang at all.