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Title: Breaching walls and sinking ships: the performance of 17th-century artillery
Post by: MechAg94 on November 05, 2021, 01:57:42 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIDu7NPLbwc
Drachinifel posted this video this week giving his opinions of age of sail guns and the lethality of splinters.  He talked a bit about the Mythbusters test a few years back.  He also played interview footage with a historian at the Vasa museum in Sweden.  He included links to some testing of one of their 24 pounder guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRhEiibhCc
Presentation of the testing the Vasa museum did with a 24 pounder bronze cannon with some slow footage of the impact on a replica ship's hull they did.  The footage of it hitting the hull at a support beam were very impressive.  The slow motion video of the ball hitting a support beam is as about 15:25.

https://kurage.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/hocker-isbsa-14-proof.pdf
Here is the report on the testings with pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGd5HLl3GwE
Bofors Test Center - Vasa gun project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpNS0JpnUNY
Firing the Vasa Cannon 22 oct 2014
- slow motion footage of the impact on a thinner part of the hull.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XMOrbOW9DM
Firing the Vasa Cannon - Part two -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LBGIyv0Ys
This video popped up for those who don't want to listen in English. 

Title: Re: Breaching walls and sinking ships: the performance of 17th-century artillery
Post by: K Frame on November 05, 2021, 02:35:52 PM

I only watched one part of one of the videos, but holy hell that is some interesting stuff!