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Did Mesopotamians actually know the firearms?


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Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are thinking about the Chinese as the inventor of the gunpowder, we might think that gunpowder is a necessary thing for firearms. In fact, effective firearms need the gunpowder but shooting the bullets would happen by some other way or burning some other fast burning chemical combination. If we would think the Sumerians and other ancient civilizations, they might have ceremonial firearms, what was used for the ceremonies, and those firearms might have very low potential in the real fight, but in ceremonies, those firearms could be impressive.

Maybe the Sumerians used the hollow sticks, what were filled with dung, and above the dung would put the bullet, what was made by using mud or beeswax. When those sticks were closed the dung would create methane-gas, the would explode in the flame.  And then those firearms or guns were put on the campfire, and then the projectile would fly to the target. Maybe the small cone-shaped containers, are used as the projectiles in this kind of ancient firearms.

And when we are thinking about that case, that Sumerians would use a bunch of canes, what is closed with beeswax, and filled with dung, and there would be small stones in it, those ancient warriors might have primitive machine guns but were they used for ceremonies or real fight or are they even existed is a question, what we cannot find an answer. Sumerians might know, how to create methane, and it is possible that they used this gas in their ceremonies, because it burns very impressive way, and it will also explode in the certain mixture with air. So those priests would be made an impression to the ordinary people by using this kind of tricks in their ceremonies.

Could methane replace gunpowder in firearms?

In modern time have been introduced the hybrid gun, what is a mixture of air gun and firearm. By using methane gas is possible to create the air-gun, what gives bullets very fast muzzle velocity or in fact, the muzzle velocity will be faster than using a normal air gun. In those weapons, the electric spark would ignite the methane, what would deliver to the pressure chamber from the tank, what is installed in the stock of the rifle, and then the bullet would be feed in the front of the chamber. Then the gas would explode, and the bullet will fly to the target.

Sometimes have been planned to use acetylene and oxygen mixture, what is the same mixture, what are using in welding. The certain mixture of those gases would explode, and that will be made possible to create a very effective weapon. If somebody uses that kind of weapons, would they allow to load much more bullets in the weapon, and the acetylene-oxygen combination will conduct to the gun from the tanks, what can be extremely small and easy to change. Those guns can also use ordinary nails and steel balls as the ammunition.

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