Additionally, the ability to load the traction trebuchet with some less-than-conventional objects marked it with a versatility that its counterweight cousin doesn't possess.

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In the midst of protests in 2014, Ukrainian protesters constructed a trebuchet that they used to launch rocks and Molotov cocktails at police officers.

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The counterweight trebuchet was equipped with a windlass, an apparatus which was required neither for traction nor hybrid trebuchets to launch missiles.

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2023/12/15/byzantine-inventions-used-today/