Название: The Crossbow (Osprey Weapon 61)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: True PDF
Cтраниц: 81
Размер: 16 Mb
Язык: English
Technologically sophisticated and powerful, the crossbow has long enjoyed a popular reputation for villainous superiority because it could be used with little training as a weapon of assassination. The study of bow designs, trigger mechanisms and spanning devices reveals a tale of considerable mechanical ingenuity; advances that produced a battlefield weapon requiring comparatively little training to use. It was an extremely useful weapon, and especially effective in siege warfare for both attack and defence.