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Korea had them too
>In 1300 Mongol mercenaries in India are recorded to have used hand held rockets.
Basically these were the first rockets to not just be arrows with explodey bits on them
Doesn't look like they invented rockets.
blocking Vee is how you can tell JF is high IQ
>According to Liang Jieming, two Song dynasty generals by the name of Yue Yifang and Feng Jisheng (馮繼升) invented a variant fire arrow which used gunpowder tubes as propellant. However more documentary evidence of rockets does not appear until the 13th century.
Yeah I could be wrong here but last time I saw info on it, the idea is that exploding arrows were taken in India and the Indians had the idea of packing all the bomb into metal and making what people would today see as a rocket
Also gotta admit spinnign sword rockets are cool af
But yeah I think these are sometimes considered the first rockets because they exploded
Why would you attach a sword to that?
whereas the earlier ones were just arrows that flew faster
Fuck man
why not put swords on everything
Anywhere my only point here is that the meme really does not give a fair shake to Asians
The fucking *plow* was apparently invented in China
It would probably make it slower
and Steppe horse people(Iranians or Turks or Mongols) appear to have invented hte wheel
Yeah it probably would, though I could also see it being an early understanding of ballistics
"put a fuckin' sword on it, Rajneesh, see if that helps"
>Arrows are for sissies, real men throw swords!
They had rockets in the Napoleon era
They were shit
And not widely used
Why use a rocket when you can use a Cannon
More accuracy
More common metertial
Have have gunpowder
And everything else needed might as well use a Cannon
Yeah definitely cannons were better
Though the first version of everything is going to be pretty shit
Took like 400 years for guns to be anything other than cheaper, shittier bows
Yup
I figure that the rockets were more shit to scare the shit out of horses
The swords probably made a spooky woosh noise too
Yeah they screamed like fireworks do
But military fireworks