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Rockets were used in the eastern world for warfare from at least the 15thC, but not in Europe. However we used them a little in the 16thC, but not fitted to arrows....

I am certain someone would have tried it, so now it is my turn. Let's make medieval style rocket powered arrows live again! But how do they perform and why might they have wanted them? There is only one way to find out and that is to make some and try them out for real.

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Arrow data

Type. weight. V at launch. V at 60m. E at 60m. Mom. at 60m Distance
Untethered arrow 90gm. 44ms. 35ms. 55J. 3.15kg.m/s. 200m
Dummy rocket arrow. 128gm. 32ms. 13ms. 11J. 1.7kg.m/s. N/A
Live rocket arrow 128gm. 29ms. 74ms. 350J. 9.5kg.m/s. 490m*
*estimated

Speculative numbers based on estimated speed at 90m
Type. weight. V at launch. V at 60m. E at 60m. Mom. at 90m Distance
Live rocket arrow 128gm. 29ms. 95ms. 578J. 12.2kg.m/s. 750m*
*estimated