Last night I was fortunate enough to see a show on the History Channel on advanced Chinese weaponary from a few centuries ago. Among the weapons the showed were flamethrowers, ship to ship rockets that fired arrow mid-flight, and a variety of crossbows. Among them was a repeating crossbow. I was amazed how simple it looked. I had imagined repeating crossbows having some system of gears (I'm not sure why) and a obscure method of drawing back the string. What I saw was as something that just required you to pull something like a lever back and forth. Not even a trigger pull was required for it.
Here is a link to a YouTube video showing someones homemade version. It looks a little more rough than the one on History channel but they seemed to work the same way.
I liked them "fire dragons out of water."
They're snarky.
If I saw one coming in my direction I would take off running. They are insane!
I mean... a two stage rocket that shot (rocket propelled?) arrows out of what appeared to be a dragon's mouth? I sounds like something out of my nightmares rather than weapon from several centuries ago.