Talk:Rocketry/@comment-212.146.14.146-20150210111038/@comment-198.99.30.141-20161025173653

The Chinese indeed had handheld rocket battery, but it was not the "Nest of Bees". The "Nest of Bees" had to be mounted on a cart to fire.

And also, it's still debatable whether or not the Koreans copied the idea of Hwacha from the Chinese. The Chinese rocket carts and the Korean Hwacha had slightly different designs and probably had somewhat different roles, with the Chinese rocket carts being a versatile anti-infantry or anti-cavalry field weapon while the Korean Hwacha being better at siege. But anyways, there were indeed lots of contact between ancient China and Korea, so the chances of Hwacha being copied from the Chinese cannot be ruled out.