Friday, 14 June 2024

Trebuchet makes comeback! Trebuchets & flaming arrows used to launch fireballs at Lebanon

Israeli soldiers have launched fireballs into Lebanon using a medieval-style trebuchet. 

Footage shows IDF soldiers firing the trebuchet right next to the Lebanese border as it fires the flaming projectile over the border, right into Lebanese plantations.

'This is a local initiative and not a tool that is widely used,' the military told Israeli state broadcaster KAN News. 

'The area on the Lebanese border is characterised by boulders, thickets, and dense thorn vegetation, which poses a challenge to the IDF troops deployed in defense,' the IDF added as a reason for launching the fireballs.

The trebuchet was commonly used during the Middle Ages in sieges involving castles and other fortified locations, with large stones and projectiles being launched at enemy lines. 

Israeli soldiers have launched fireballs into Lebanon using a medieval-style trebuchet

Israeli soldiers have launched fireballs into Lebanon using a medieval-style trebuchet

Footage appears to show IDF soldiers firing the trebuchet right next to the Lebanese border as it fires the flaming projectile over the border, right into Lebanese plantations

Footage shows IDF soldiers firing the trebuchet right next to the Lebanese border as it fires the flaming projectile over the border.

'The area on the Lebanese border is characterised by boulders, thickets, and dense thorn vegetation, which poses a challenge to the IDF troops deployed in defense,' the IDF added as a reason for launching the fireballs

'The area on the Lebanese border is characterised by boulders, thickets, and dense thorn vegetation, which poses a challenge to the IDF troops deployed in defense,' the IDF added as a reason for launching the fireballs

Another video posted to X shows an IDF soldier as she shoots a flaming arrow over the border to Lebanon. 

Smoke is seen following over border attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, close the Israeli border with Lebanon, on its Israel side, June 13, 2024

Smoke is seen following over border attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, close to the Israeli border with Lebanon, on its Israel side, June 13, 2024

Israeli firefighters work following rocket attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near the border on its Israeli side, June 13, 2024

Israeli firefighters work following rocket attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near the border on its Israeli side, June 13, 2024

Two men stand by a truck as they watch smoke plumes rising from a fire in a field after rockets launched from southern Lebanon landed near the outskirts of Katzrin in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on June 13, 2024

Two men stand by a truck as they watch smoke plumes rising from a fire in a field after rockets launched from southern Lebanon landed near the outskirts of Katzrin in the Golan Heights on June 13, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13526751/Israeli-soldiers-launch-fireballs-Lebanon-trebuchet.html

Initiative: A Free Syrian Army fighter holds an improvised trebuchet in Aleppo

A Free Syrian Army fighter holds an improvised trebuchet in Aleppo

Warfare: Lightly-armed Syrian rebels who face the warplanes, artillery and tanks of loyalists have turned to making their own weapons, even rigging a video game controller to fire mortar rounds

Lightly-armed Syrian rebels have turned to making their own weapons

Fort: A Free Syrian Army fighter uses a catapult to launch a handmade bomb in the Bab al-Nasr neighborhood of Aleppo

A Free Syrian Army fighter uses a catapult to launch a handmade bomb in Aleppo

Homemade: Members of the free Syrian Army use a catapult to launch a homemade bomb during clashes with pro-government soldiers

Members of the free Syrian Army use a catapult to launch a homemade bomb

Weapon: This sketching shows a traditional trebuchet

Sketch showing a traditional trebuchet

Dangerous: The homemade catapults are unstable, and there is a risk of them collapsing while they hold a bomb

Homemade catapults

A flaming cannonball was launched from this wooden trebuchet, which stands 60ft high and weighs 22 tonnes, during a demonstration to show how the machine was used to hurl huge projectiles to breach the castle walls

Wooden trebuchet, which stands 60ft high and weighs 22 tonnes. The machine was used to hurl huge projectiles to breach castle walls

Trebuchet: The catapult flings a car through the air in a display of medieval weaponry

Trebuchet: The catapult flings a car through the air in a display of medieval weaponry

Preparing to fire: The car is winched into place before being fired across the field

Preparing to fire: The car is winched into place before being fired across the field

Flying bomb: The trebucet flings the car, which weighed between 1.5 and 2 tonnes, with ease

The trebuchet flings the car, which weighed between 1.5 and 2 tonnes, with ease

Free fall: The car flies through the air before crashing into the ground

The car flies through the air before crashing into the ground

Flying: The trebuchet also launched a petrol bomb and church organ

The trebuchet also launched a petrol bomb

Exploding bomb: The petrol bomb explodes as it flies through the air illustrating the power of the trebuchet in medieval battles

Exploding bomb: The petrol bomb explodes as it flies through the air illustrating the power of the trebuchet in medieval battles


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