00:00The Roman Onager catapult shatters stone walls, while violently threatening to break the crew's bones.
00:06Engineers wondered how a single twisted rope bundle could generate enough explosive kinetic energy to level a fortress.
00:14Common Sense says a two-armed machine spreads the force safely, but the single arm creates a brutal, uncontrollable whip.
00:21The single wooden beam slams against a padded crossbar, creating a wild bucking recoil that earned it the name Wild
00:29Donkey.
00:30This vicious bucking action defines why the Roman Onager shatters stone walls, while violently threatening to break the crew's bones.
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