Medieval Siege Engines and Cannon

A trebuchet (French: trébuchet) is a type of catapult that uses a hinged arm with a sling attached to the tip to launch a projectile.

The mangonel, also called the traction trebuchet, was a type of trebuchet used in Ancient China starting in the Warring States period and later across Eurasia by the 6th century AD. Unlike the later counterweight trebuchet, the mangonel was operated by people pulling ropes attached to one end of a lever, the other end of which had a sling to launch projectiles.

A siege tower or breaching tower (or in the Middle Ages, a belfry) is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders while approaching the defensive walls of a fortification.

A springald, or espringal, was a torsion siege engine device for throwing bolts in medieval times.

The hwacha or hwach'a (Korean: 화차; Hanja: 火車; lit. 'fire cart') was a fifteenth-century Korean weapons platform capable of performing both the multiple rocket launcher or a volley gun roles.

The Dardanelles Gun or Great Bronze Gun (Turkish: Şahi topu or simply Şahi) is a 15th-century siege cannon, specifically a super-sized bombard, which saw action in the 1807 Dardanelles operation.

Mons Meg is a medieval bombard in the collection of the Royal Armouries, on loan to Historic Environment Scotland and located at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland.