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The Roman siege engine with the kick of a wild donkey.
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• Footage courtesy: Naked Science (@NakedScience) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgjiCKHvoY

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00:00A massive wooden catapult hurls a giant stone boulder, shattering stone walls instantly.
00:06Roman engineers built the terrifying Onager machine to crush enemy fortifications during
00:11brutal wartime sieges. Common sense says a machine with one wooden arm needs metal springs,
00:18but raw twisted sinew powered the beast. Tightly wound animal tendons stored immense
00:24mechanical energy, unleashing a violent kick that earned the weapon its wild donkey name.
00:30This brutal recoil proved that a massive wooden catapult hurls a giant stone boulder,
00:36shattering stone walls instantly. By the way, this channel is automated.
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