>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

"If we put pointy shit at the end of our bombs, they fly straighter"

"put a fuckin' sword on it, Rajneesh, see if that helps"

https://youtu.be/gmHUi2FsIGU?t=53s

>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

@Alexmikli

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

Also I figure the real reason why black people never invented much other than the very earliest techs like spears is mainly because of mosquitos and tstse flies

Recalling the video I posted earlier, it's interesting how the Germans had to mix water in so the rocket fuel didn't melt the engines on the V2.

I feel like that could have also ended in disaster

what with bubbles

Course rockets are fucky things

@DanielKO Russians you plywood for jet wings

Like the first(and only) rocket plane the germans fielded