Chariots to Choppers

摘要

The chariot was an early expression of mobility on the battlefield; employed for military purposes during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The Assyrian Army, considered by some military historians as the world's first professional army, employed the chariot to great advantage. Early light chariots, each with driver and archer and a team of two horses, was an early weapons support vehicle for infantry. Groups of chariots would shower enemy formations with arrows, and do so from different quarters, as the Assyrian infantry launched its assaults.