Leach trench catapult
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Leach trench catapult
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The Leach trench catapult was a bomb-throwing catapult used by the British Army on the Western Front during World War I. It was designed to throw a 2 lb (0.91 kg) projectile in a high trajectory into enemy trenches. Although called a catapult, it was effectively a combination crossbow and slingshot. It was invented by Claude Pemberton Leach as an answer to the German Wurfmaschine, a spring-powered device for propelling a hand grenade about 200 m (220 yd). The design was a Y-shaped frame with nat
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Catapult
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leach_trench_catapult
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2023-03-17T17:28:41Z
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