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Ukraine war went back to ww1 and Israeli went back to medieval times and India and China & India went back to Stone Age. What a time to be alive

We didn't even need a nuclear war to go back to using sticks and stones, just bored soldiers.

"How can you take on the gov? They have drones!" *picks up rock* "Bet."

Reject modernity embrace tradition

Fun fact. Harrison Ford was sick on the day of that shoot so he suggested just pulling his gun and shooting the guy with the sword so he didn’t have to do a long fight scene.

What do you call a purple boat with a trebuchet and a telescope? A one-eyed, one-armed floating purple people yeeter.

a police officer in serbia got shot in the neck by a crossbow just now in front of israel embassy...he lived and even managed to fatally shot the crossbowman...the medieval modern warfare lore just keeps growing.

First fighter jet: Messerschmitt 1942 Last battle of American Civil War: 1865 That's only 77 years, one average lifespan.

when you get bored of using laser guided missiles so you decide to go old school

I'm guessing @AdministrativeResults didn't want to shoot in this nice 115° Arizona heat, so he did a podcast style video. And honestly I'm with it.

Y'all better hold him to the trebuchet just as bad as we held Brandon Herrera to the AK-50

Ah, yes, now my tens of thousands of hours of age of empires 2 will come in handy.

"i do not know with what weapons WW III will be fought with but WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones" is this what was meant?

India versus China resulting in rocks plus sticks and shields is the most mind blowing and flabberghasting modern warfare story I've heard that makes me want to sit down with players from both sides and kindly ask "Hey India... what the fuck?- Hey China... what the fuck?!" like seriously, how on earth did such a battle not only start that way but persisted that way through out the course of the battle without any shots fired from either side, lol

Admin already getting ahead of the curve with his longbow training

When they said Trebuchets would be “The Weapon” they meant it

7:29 this is exactly what happened, a bunch of reservist units were tasked with clearing the brush at the border and started a competition to see which unit can do it In the most effective way. Hand held devices can be thrown only so far but this trebuchet was accurate up to 170 meters! They didn't won eventually because someone came up with something similar to a potato cannon but field with molotov cocktails, but they got a honorary second place

My middle daughter and I built a smaller trebuchet years ago, would launch a baseball a surprising distance for some 2x4s, rope and some weight

There was a crossbow sold by Barnett (the Barnett Commando) to the Serbs during the conflicts in the 1990s. It was used for ambushes and assassinations. Barnett is a British company and ceased production after the media raised a stink about it. I've got one, it's so easy to cock with just your hands even my 8-year-old son can do it, but it will still put a bolt clean through a pig. It breaks open and cocks sort of like a pellet gun.

You mean you DON'T have a trebuchet?!?!

My grandpa used to work in some steel mills back in the day. When I’d go visit him in Alabama 20 years ago he had big catapults that would launch a 20+ pound watermelon or pumpkin 100+ yards. We’d launch water balloons at each other across his field with the catapults. One of my favorite memories. He also made a badass black powder cannon that busted the windows on one side of the house when he set it off in the driveway. Great video

I’ve got a tattoo that looks just like that shogun shotgun joke. It’s just with an ak47 instead

You think that's old school?! I heard they did an Op where a bunch of dudes walked around a perimeter and blew some horns. Positive breach! True story, man.

My favorite Trebuchet story is that of the Warwolf, though it's not a modern example. Basically the king of England (the "Longshanks" one) ordered this massive trebuchet that needed several wagons to move around. And since the Scots were being uppity, he decided to besiege a town and test it out. The really funny part about the story is that townsfolk saw this massive siege weapon and decided that they'd rather just get terms with the English than get hit with that thing. So a delegation was sent, and Longshanks basically told them "You will get to give up when I tell you can give up", because he hadn't had a chance to test his new toy yet. And so it was, the delegation went back, the Warwolf was finished and a shot was fired (with some notable damage to the town wall as a result, apparently), and _then_ the town was allowed to negotiate. I can't remember off the top of my head if it was ever used after that, but I know a replica of it exists in England.

German SF guys were also using chain mail to counter knife attacks

In the Siege of Marawi in 2017, the Armed Forces of the Philippines deployed catapults and slings that launched grenades against the Maute Group, an Islamic State affiliate in Southeast Asia.

Admin, heres a thought to remember- not even cannons were anti-personnel weapons at first. All these big seige weapons (catapults, trebuchets, cannons, etc) were all meant to be SEIGE weapons, you build them and use them to break the stalemate of a seige. What a seige's biggest target? Walls. Trebuchets and the likes were meant to get a few shots off at walls, and break a spot in the walls down. As soon as that spot was down, send in the hundreds or thousands of men who had been camping out for the last few weeks or months waiting for the trebchet to get built and adjusted and do some damage. Cannons did the same thing early on- except instead of shooting rocks that might take some time to knock a section of wall down, you can shoot heavy metal balls PRETTY accurately, and knock down a part of the wall you want gone from a reasonable distance. Of course, by that time early guns were also being introduced and there were still some guys carrying around halberds and such, but thats a different topic Anyways, overall, trebuchets and the likes were primarily meant to bust down walls.

I need to get the boys now and practice our phalanx formation.

Kind of a random thought but the Indians and Chinese fighting with primitive weapons is a really good example of why there will always be a need for infantry. Both countries are nuclear powers but out of fear of escalating the war they’re using the most basic foot soldiers.

Talking about bows in combat, I remember a story of a guy in A-stan getting hit by an arrow from one some taliban asshole. Basically, dude popped up with the bow, took a shot, connected, though it basically with a flesh wound, knocked the guy down, and while the dude is looking at the guy who just shot him, not even realizing he'd been hit at that point, the soldier on the mk19 spun the turret and that was more or less the end of the guy with the bow since he was scattered across the area. Medic shows up, see what amounts to a flesh wound goes, "You're hardly injured, where's the other guy," guys point to the smear on the ground, and the medic goes, well I guess I am treating a flesh wound.

Recently Philippines and China engaged a 17th century naval boarding tactics.

I was just thinking about how Fat Electrician did a video not too long ago about "The Last Warchief" and how unlikely it was that there ever be another one because of a lack of horses on the battlefield these days. Maybe there is a chance after all.

The Germans said they didn't shoot the bagpipe players because they thought they had gone insane and weren't a threat.

That age of empires war sound activated my PTSD bruh

I gotta fever .. And the only cure ... Is MORE trebuchet

Fun fact a friend and I made a trebuchet for fun in high school… we were 1 week into building it and then our physics teacher assigned a project to build 1. We had to de tune ours so much to make it throw short enough. 😅

I see a Todd’s workshop collab trebuchets and long bows make that shit happen

never underestimate the ingenuity of a bored infantryman. grunts n crafts. i've heard of a candidate at SF selection losing his rubber duck/mock weapon during land navigation, came back with a functioning set of bow and arrows made of sticks and paracord. apparently he got selected.

About 20 years ago popular mechanics has plans for a trebuchet in their magazine. Two of my friends and i built one in a afternoon. We got half a brick over a single story house and just across the road into a field across street. Admin, you need fat electrician to help with this project. 😉

Russian generals: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

As countermeasures to modern munitions get better and better, the most effective solution really does seem to be the most inexpensive munitions possible.

The reason for the strange India-China clubbings were they were trying to move the fence (the de facto border) but didn't want a full blown war

From what I understand, the purpose of trebuchets in medieval siege warfare wasn't primarily to tear down fortifications. If you hit a tower, wall or gate with enough shots, sure, it would probably collapse eventually, but the point of it all was more so to rain down rocks and other projectiles inside the castle, possibly destroying smaller internal buildings and terrorizing the people inside. Alternatively, they were also set up defensively, on the castle walls and towers, since they could be used to take aim at enemy siege engines, or break those large wooden walls that were set up by the besiegers as cover. Technically they could also try to attack the siege camp with it, though that would usually be out of range.

IDF be like "and you get a Fireball. And you get a Fireball" thats batshit crasy 😅

Im thinking those IDF soldiers were former Marines with no supervision 😂

I can think of other modern applications for the trebuchet right here in 'merica.

Can confirm. Building a trebuchet is a recipe for a good time. The high school water fight is all fun and games until myself and a couple friends spent the weekend before building a trebuchet balloon launcher that can hurl a bunch of balloons ~100 yds.

There are a lot of very good potentials for even modern scenarios and ancient ideas and weapons. Quiet is important. No matter what the movies tell us, "silencers" are far from silent. They take the pain out of it for the shooter and those nearby, but it's still audible for a long ways. I can hear friends a mile and a half away shooting with suppressors if I'm outside. If they don't have them on, I can hear the shots real well. Crossbow, longbow, various sling type mechanisms, and then you get into booby traps and that sort of fuckery, there's some seriously entertaining stuff. Improvised weapons and munitions was among my favorite training classes.....

POV the draft lottery finally pulls the ticket of your local ren faire enthusiast

And the early stages of the first world war there was some sort of slingshot system used to throw bombs. I think the French might’ve used it.

Shoguns actually had shotguns. They were called tanegashima and they were ye olde Mossberg Shockwaves. Hōjutsu or Teppojutsu is the art of gunnery.

“Bring me a shrubbery, One that looks nice... And not too expensive.”

0:07 got me with my Vietnam flashbacks of Age of Empires 2 😂

Yes, cannons replaced catapults immediately despite how much they sucked back then. The gunpowder was coarse, the cannonballs had to be adjusted to fit, rifling didn't exist, the fit was either too loose to be efficient or too tight and blows up the cannon, and they were hugely expensive. However, cannons could be transported overland and could do in weeks what catapults took months or years to do.

We've made trebuchet for fun in boy scouts. We haven't planned for it before. Tree trunk was used as a countertweight, cut down plastic bottles were used for "pseudo-bearings" to reduce friction and everything was connected by rope (well, some duct tape was used to create bottle-bearings). That trebuchet was far from great but we've had a lot of fun building it and even more fun shooting water baloons at people (mostly ourselves). Great times.

Hey Admin, you should hook up with zna productions, he is making a ballista, and he is also a good christan boy, thnk both of you would vibe

Love this kind of content. The channel development is incredible

I regularly use a slingshot and river pebbles to chase creatures out of my plants, so a trebuchet splatting a sniper in the near future doesn't seem ridiculous.

They used to use trebuchets to throw deceased boddies etc over castle walls as a form of chemical warfare.

I am 100% here for this

Save powder, dont wear out barrels.....win win

One of my favourite things I've learnt about bows and arrows is they will happily go through sandbags and water butts, as used in the siege of sarajevo in the 90s

Won the HS science fair with a trebuchet, my study was on different counterweights and the effect on velocity and distance. My goal was to build something that was scale to the force applied by a real one. Also got in trouble for raining buckets of jolly ranchers on the people in the stands. Fun idea in theory, painful with a functioning 6 ft trebuchet.

The yugoslav wars allso saw use of bows and crossbows to shoot through sandbag fortifications.

Medieval pizza.

The latest Toyota Hilux comes with a turntable for the trebuchet. It also comes with winch to draw the trebuchet.

For your trebuchet episode you should try to recreate at least a scale model (the full size one might be a bit too big) of Warwolf - perhaps the largest trebuchet ever built that was commissioned by King Edward 1st of England in his war against the Scots.

DO A HELL CANNON VIDEO PLEAAAAAASE

Nothing like sitting on the Throne watching a highly educational video!!

We need more of this! Old timey weapons in use today. Fascinating.

Meanwhile over here in Australia we’re bashing each other up with lawn chairs and milk crates

"No no that happened to me!" "No man. You are confusing yourself with John Rambo again."

KZfaqr "Tod's Workshop" did a whole series on a modern Trebuchet. Check it out. Admin featured some Tod crossbows a few videos ago.

Some ancient stuff works just fine, I have killed five Elk with my longbow and it was good eating

Oh man, this takes me back to when boy scouts was cool and scout camp was known to all as "Stick Wars!"

Admin my beloved

Guns and explosives are more than 800 years old in some fashion or way we went from strapping bombs on horses and Camel to putting them on drones.

Setting phasers to stun, and going at it makes sense. Humans intrinsically want to solve problems with violence, but don’t want to use lethal force when it can easily be reciprocate back onto them.

7:43 A guy named David using a giant sling to throw giant fireballs at the enemy to save $$ on ordinance is the most Jéwîsh thing I've heard.

In boy scouts I built a trebuchet for a catapult competition; we so thoroughly annihilated the competition they changed the rules the next year to explicitly exclude us. It's one of my proudest moments.

At Pennsic years ago I got to play with a trebuchet...a little one, I tossed a garbage bag of popcorn right onto a knight's steel noggin...back at home I've built a catapult powered by a garage door spring...it chucks fruit nicely!

I feel like it was probably one super nerd soldier who was like I have an idea.

china had mass production of dadao swords in ww2 , instead of raiding the japanese trenches with club and maces they used the dadao swords, pretty based

I absolutely love the use of Age Of Empires graphics (Age of Kings if I’m not mistaken) for the trebuchet collapse imagery. Brings me back to my childhood. Please do make a trebuchet video, I’ll be disappointed if you don’t.

"That goat has a rifle!" is not a sentence I expected to think. ever.

In modern warfare of the last 5 or so years every single generation of weapon have been used. From swords, to bows, cross bows, and catipolts. All the way to WW1/2 weapons like the Mosin, mp40, stg 44, and trench parascopes. Not to mention damn near every modern rifle and atachment. Right the way up to cutting edge stuff like the information war, electronic warfare, man portable guided missiles, and yes, drones. Even the humble hunting shotgun has found its way back to the battlefield to take out those same drones. At this point the only major weapons left out are smooth bore muzzle loaders and black powder cannons, but it wouldn't shock me if these too have been used.

I actually have built several ballistas the Roman arrow thrower. My best was a copy of one dug up at a roman fort in Romania. I could fire a 2 lb bolt 500 yards

Built a trebuchet in high school. Used it to launch water balloons at passing cars. Had a great time finding the right timing and counter weights. As an adult I realize that was dumb, but still a fun memory lol

We had to build a trebuchet from scratch during my schooling for my mechanical engineering degree. Ended up building one that threw a 3 lbs weight 300 yards. Shit was wild and kinda dangerous

As a man who built a trebuchet for school, it took me 3 days to get it to work, and essentially solo’d a group projects. I ended up winning though, so good times.

Me and my brother made a [miniature] ballista off of the internet. It was 1/4 scale and actually worked. So yes, you can find schematics for medieval siege equipment online.

"Hugo Stigltz" ahhhhhh mad jack intro

i just got a new traditional recurve bow and ive been getting pretty dialed in with it...i have to say...theres something pretty satisfying about locking in with an oldschool bow with no sights or gear to assist your accuracy....just the bow and your skill.

Ni! You must cut down the shrubbery with a herring!

My dad built a 20ft (ish) trebuchet 15+ yrs ago. For his 40th birthday, his buddies came over and my mom let them build whatever they wanted. Now, the first Saturday after Halloween, we gather up all the neighborhood's pumkins and host a large "pumkin chuckin'" party, and dinner. It's pretty dope!

"The Outlaw King" has a depiction of the largest trebuchet ever built, The War Wolf, near the start of the film.

Yeah, the Indians and Chinese learned from Negan in The Walking Dead. Gnarly is the correct technical term for that wooden club with nails and barbed wire.

I was bored in the field and made a sling once. Was absolutely chunking rocks

The took the saying "the key to the future is too fight in the past like your ancestors" to a new saying 😂