![]() Be that as it may, the god of war was the artillery with the creation of firearms. But the appearance of guns formed new troops, which in Russia were called "firearms", and which the Italian theorist of armaments Niccolo Tartaglia proposed to call artillery, which in translation means "the art of shooting." Some researchers believe that this kind of troops appeared much earlier than the discovery of a German monk, with the invention of the first throwing machines - ballista. They were simply armed with existing ones, replacing in the infantry and cavalry bows and light javelins throwing darts. The appearance of hand-held firearms did not lead to the creation of a new kind of troops. The first was the creation of light hand-held firearms, the second was the production of guns. The monk's discovery was quickly applied in military affairs, and soon there were two directions in the development of weapons, where propellant propellant properties were used. ![]() When, in the distant 1330, Berthold Schwarz, a German monk, discovered the propellant properties of gunpowder, he did not anticipate that he would become the progenitor of the new god, the god of war. ![]()
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