The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances. Some catapults could throw stones weighing as much as 350 ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Click here to see a video of engineers testing a prototype of an electromagnetic catapult at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Powered by electromagnetic energy ...

PH3 Jason A. Fults / US Navy George Sulich stands astride one of two 333-foot-long steam-powered catapults aimed down the runway at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare center in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

The site off the coast of western Sicily is the only known ancient naval battlefield ever discovered—nautical archaeologists have recovered 26 Roman and Carthaginian naval rams and other artifacts ...

The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances. Some catapults could throw stones weighing as much as 350 ...