13 September 2015

Zuan Feng Shen Huo Liu Xing Pao (鑽風神火流星砲)

Drawing of a Zuan Feng Shen Huo Liu Xing Pao, from 'Wu Bei Zhi (《武備志》)'.

Zuan Feng Shen Huo Liu Xing Pao (鑽風神火流星砲, lit. 'Wind-boring divine fire shooting star bomb'), sometimes shortened to Feng Huo Liu Xing Pao (風火流星砲, lit. 'Wind and fire shooting star bomb') or simply Liu Xing Pao (流星砲, lit. 'Shooting star bomb'), is a cast iron bomb that can be filled with three to six types of gunpowders for different purposes. It is usually filled with incendiary, poison smoke and blinding dust gunpowder, although other options such as blinding smoke and fragmentation are also available. The bomb also comes with a four fuses setup to prevent enemy troops from defusing the bomb easily before it explodes.

Zuan Feng Shen Huo Liu Xing Pao comes in three different variants: small, medium and large. The small variant is a hand grenade, medium variant is an explosive shell launched from a bombard or mortar, while the large variant, too heavy to be thrown or launched, is usually strapped to the back of a pack animal to be used as living bomb.

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