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Smaller, hand-held versions of battering rams are still used today by law enforcement officers and military personnel to break open locked doors. A capped ram is a battering ram that has an accessory at the head (usually made of iron or steel and sometimes punningly shaped into the head and horns of an ovine ram) to do more damage to a building ...
Another Roman siege engine sometimes used resembled the Greek ditch-filling tortoise of Diades, this galley (unlike the ram-tortoise of Hegetor the Byzantium) called a musculus ("muscle") was simply used as cover for sappers to engineer an offensive ditch or earthworks. Battering rams were also widespread.
Battering ram: 9th Century BC Assyria: First siege engine recorded to be used, soon adopted by Sparta. [1] Catapult: 500 BC Greece: A signature siege engine, used until World War I. [2] Lithobolos: 5th Century BC Magadha, India: Siege engines that propel a stone along a flat track with two rigid bow arms powered by torsion. Invented by the ...
A battering ram is a siege engine originating in ancient times. Battering Ram may also refer to: Battering Ram (comics), a fictional mutant in the Marvel Universe; Battering Ram (Iron Savior album), a 2004 album by the German power metal band Iron Savior; Battering Ram (Saxon album), a 2015 album by the English heavy metal band Saxon
Roman battering ram. A battering ram (aries) with a shed . After a relief on Septimius Severus' triumphal arc in Rome. Roman battering rams, or aries, were an effective weapon for breaking down an enemy's walls, as well as their morale. Under Roman law, any defenders who failed to surrender before the first ram touched their wall were denied ...
The ram of Olympias, a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme. In warfare, ramming is a technique used in air, sea, and land combat. The term originated from battering ram, a siege engine used to bring down fortifications by hitting it with the force of the ram's momentum, and ultimately from male sheep. Thus, in warfare, ramming refers ...
The Enforcer is a 16 kg hardened steel construction with a steel pad at the impact end so that it can absorb the impact, [2] and a handle at the opposite end angled so that the user can swing accurately at inward-opening doors without actually applying their own pressure more than necessary. [2]
Enforcer (battering ram), a manual battering ram used by British Police forces Law enforcer, a person empowered by the state to enforce the law; Mob enforcer, a member of a group, especially of a criminal gang, who performs contract killings or is charged with keeping dissident members obedient