Robert Drews argues that chariots were the jet fighters of their day in his book The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.
Yup, they served as mobile archery platforms; the driver swung along parallel to the enemy line, the archer fired shot after shot into the enemies, then they’d zoom back to get more arrows.
28 posted on 11/10/2010 3:49:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)