Throughout historical warfare the bow is commonly discussed however the sling was an important projectile weapon in antiquity and we will discover the true power of the sling with radar testing today. This is a collaboration project with Rick Arms and I strongly recommend you to check out his channel for his historical sling as well as the channel of archibelistic. A sling is a weapon typically used to throw projectiles such as natural stones found in the ground clay or lead bullets. The sling is inexpensive and easy to make historically it has been used for hunting warfare hurting animals and recreational use. A classic sling is braided from non-elastic material and the traditional materials are flax, hemp, wool or rush. It is possible that the sling was invented during the paediatric stone age but archaeological finds of slings themselves are rare. This is because slings are made of natural materials and they were lower status weapons so rarely preserved for burial. Representations of slingers can be found on artifacts from all over the ancient world including Assyrians, Egyptians, Romans, Norman artifacts and the oldest representation of a slinger in art may be an Anatolian settlement from 7,000 BC. The sling is mentioned as early as in the writings of Homer. The Greeks and the Romans also wrote about the usage of slings from the Greeks, Romans, Ibarians, Lucetanians, Gauls, Persians, Arabs, Libyans, Phoenicians for example and Livy mentions the most famous of ancient skillful slingers where the people of the Balaric Islands who worked as mercenaries. Strabble rights and their training in the use of the slings used to be such from childhood up that they would not so much to give bread to their children unless they first hit with the sling. Balaric slingers were among the specialist mercenaries used by Carthaginians and Romans. The late Roman writer Vegetius wrote that the sling caused more noise to the soldiers than arrows of the enemy and the greatest reason for instructing all troops with the sling according to him is that it's portable and it's especially useful in stony places where ammunition can be easily found. The sling is also mentioned in the Bible in the book of Judges and of course we know David vs Goliath. As a weapon the sling has several advantages. The sling was light to carry and cheap to produce. Ammunition in the form of stones was readily available or they can be cast in clay or lead. A proper sling bullet lobbed in high trajectory can reach ranges of an axis of 400 meters with a modern shape. A bow and arrow could also reach this distances although this is in the context of flight archery and more analysis is planned on this channel to compare with the bow versus the sling in the context of warfare. Ancient poets wrote that the sling bullets could penetrate armor and that lead projectiles are heated by the passage through the air could melt in flight. According to the description of Procopius the sling had an effective range further than the Hunnic bows. Now let's find out the true power of the sling using modern radar testing to find out the the velocity in meters per second and with the projectile weights we can find out the trulls of kinetic energy. Thank you very much archaic arms for this collaboration. 17, 17, oh, 60, 80, 60 meters on age style then in sling. Alright 60.5s 62 64 61 meters. 63. 62. 55. 58. 56. 56. 53. 53. 51 meters. 49. 40. 49. 49. 51. 48. 48. 46. 59. 46. 43. 48. 64. 46. 46. 41. 44 meters 42 meters a second 41 meters a second 38 meters a second 103 grams 43 meters a second 43 meters a second 41 meters a second 40 meters a second 38 meters a second 36 37 36 34 33 35 37 31 37 Rubbish 26 25 meters a second 596 grams water 25 meters a second and might as well break my shoulder on the last one 700 and 80 grams No 24 Well thanks to our cake arms for the data and our Holistic's for some of the footage's I do plan to compare this with the bow and arrow and also comparing with javelins of antiquity as well as other projectile weapons such as the Adelado and throwing axes if people are interested Thanks a lot this is Jack from Historic Archery