Story of astonishingly large "floating fortresses" built by the ancient Chinese to cruise down river as a kind of "shock and awe" death-star platform.
Computer models shown of square barge-like Early Han Dynasty warship, Castle or Tower Ships (Lou Chuan) of the Han Dynasty, paddle wheel warships are explored, and Sung dynasty mine ships.
Then an investigation and demonstration of ancient Chinese anti-boat mines, nearly 1000 years before similarily effective ones were built and used in the West.
interviews with Dr. Stephen Davies, Dr. John Bevan, and Richard Windley, who re-creates the ancient Chinese mine technology, exploding some in a tank.
Thanks!!! Nice watch.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the text part they showed had nothing to do with mines...T__T
ReplyDeleteGreat video, when was this shown on the History channel?
ReplyDeleteGreat show Jieming. Thanks for posting. I wonder how much damage would be done to a hull. It the boat was "tangled in them" You might get significant damage as shock waves are propagated in water much better than air. He speculated that they could have been distraction devices. Too back he could not make a simulated hull and use 4-5 pounds of powder.
ReplyDeleteThe whole Ancient Discoveries series is showing on TV now but if missed them, I have a set of the ones where I was involved in, including this one.
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