The difference there, chain shot, is that the chain is still fairly short, because you can’t really get a large length of chain to reliably ‘unfold’ from a single projectile when fired. This beast had a chain that started unfurled, attached to each cannon ball, and long enough to go all the way down each of the barrels - making it, theoretically, have a massive spread of chain which could scythe down large numbers of troops in formation, instead of just a handful (for which one would generally prefer grapeshot, shrapnel, or canister).
It would work in the sense that you’d now have two cannonballs being lifted up towards the gun and crew when the center ball left the barrel only for them to smash violently into each other assuming they don’t smash into something else first, lol.
A common combustion chamber would have been better, but even then you have slightly different sized balls, different wadding with different amounts of friction, etc.
I dont see why it wouldn’t work with just a regular cannon and two balls, linked by chain, stacked in series in the barrel.
What if there was a way to offer ads while not being extremely privacy invasive? Oh, good thing Mozilla’s been working on that! Oh wait, the same people here hate that as well…
News agencies have always been able to offer adverts. But with the option to deny optional tracking cookies. Now you have to accept tracking cookies or pay money.
English is not my first language, and I’m not sure whether “indorsed” is a spelling error or a weird archaic word supposed to magically make the debt go away.
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