They used muzzle loaded cannons at his time, so it makes sense. It’s not only for direction, but for faster rate of fire.
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ameancow@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I love he was inventive enough to design a tank a couple centuries before anyone actually built on, but couldn’t piece together a better idea for aiming in any direction than “cannons pointed in every conceivable direction.”
bstix@feddit.dk 5 hours ago
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Why shoot at ome target when you can shoot at 30? (as long as they’re evenly encircling the machine)
andallthat@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I guess that’s how ship cannons worked at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate… more of them would give you the only way to have sustained firepower.
But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. “And look, this shit has cannons… Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!”. I guess it’s what happens when your so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.