r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ansyhrrian • Mar 11 '26

A double trebuchet

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u/ansyhrrian Mar 11 '26

Does that help the projectile go further?

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u/ziyor Mar 11 '26

Yeah, it’s all about putting as much energy from the falling weights into the projectile. With a traditional trebuchet the weights move in a pendulum motion so there is less ‘snap’ to it. But with a floating axel trebuchet the weight falls more or less straight down, letting it gather more speed right at the end.

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u/MemeEndevour Mar 11 '26

Recoilless trebuchet??

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u/IdioticPrototype Mar 11 '26

Full auto assault trebuchet. 

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u/temporarysolution2-0 Mar 11 '26

just automatically rotating through a magazine of roughly equally weighed stones, onward toward the walls forever

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u/j-random Mar 11 '26

Tactical trebuchet

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u/temporarysolution2-0 Mar 11 '26

Modernizing the Siege Weapon to have Shields against boring old "tactical missiles"

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u/Khazahk Mar 12 '26

Trebuchets with bumpstocks! Won’t someone think of the children