This article is about the rocket-propelled projectile. For incendiary arrows shot with a bow or crossbow, see Flaming arrow. For other uses, see Fire Arrow (disambiguation).
An arrow strapped with gunpowder ready to be shot from a bow. From the HuolongjingDepiction of rocket arrows, from the Huolongjing. The right arrow reads 'fire arrow', the middle is an 'arrow frame in the shape of a dragon' and the left is a 'complete fire arrow'.
Fire arrows were one of the earliest forms of weaponized gunpowder, being used from the 9th century onward. Not to be confused with earlier incendiary arrow projectiles, the fire arrow was a gunpowder weapon which receives its name from the translated Chinese term huǒjiàn (火箭), which literally means fire arrow. In China a 'fire arrow' referred to a gunpowder projectile consisting of a bag of incendiary gunpowder attached to the shaft of an arrow. Fire arrows are the predecessors of fire lances, the first firearm.[1]
Later rockets utilizing gunpowder were used to provide arrows with propulsive force and the term fire arrow became synonymous with rockets in the Chinese language. In other languages such as Sanskrit 'fire arrow' (agni astra) underwent a different semantic shift and became synonymous with 'cannon'.[2]
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century in weapons such as firearrows, bombs, and the fire lance before the appearance of the gun in the 13th century. While the fire lance was eventually...
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sometimes ignited and thrown at the enemy, or attached to spears, arrow and bolts and fired by hand or machine. The simplest and most common thermal projectiles...
Europe. One of the first recorded rocket launchers is the "wasp nest" firearrow launcher produced by the Ming dynasty in 1380. In Europe rockets were...
oblique angle so that the archer has a wide field of view and field of fire. Arrow slits come in a variety of forms. A common one is the cross, accommodating...
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firearrow. In China a 'firearrow' referred to a gunpowder projectile consisting of a bag of incendiary gunpowder attached to the shaft of an arrow from...
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with early firearrows, which were conventional arrows carrying small tubes of black powder as an incendiary that ignited only after the arrow hit its target...
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Korea. The former variant fired one or two hundred rocket-powered arrows while the latter fired several dozen iron-headed arrows or bolts out of gun barrels...
archaic FireArrow. When the Northern Song capital of Kaifeng fell to the Jurchens in 1126, it was written by Xia Shaozeng that 20,000 firearrows were handed...
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