Timeline for Were slings used for throwing hand grenades? If not, why?
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 2:21 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @DewiMorgan Slingshots and slings are very different weapons. | |
| Oct 2, 2016 at 0:06 | comment | added | Doctor Zhivago | Slingers exist to get the folks in heavy armor to fall over...thus causing other heavy infantry to fall over, etc. Great trade off because you have unlimited ammo too...and can travel fast over uneven ground...really make a mess of things. As former light infantry assault I can tell you straight up nothing beats a carbine. Smoke grenades are way better than the explosive kind, always carry a sidearm (pistol.) You simply can't be in the open in modern war anymore...hence "War in the Donbass" which is a fight over...and most likely in...a massive coal deposit. "Carbines and handguns... | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 23:14 | comment | added | Dewi Morgan | I went hiking in the mountains of Chiang Mai in Thailand about 16 years ago. Our tour guide kept shooting snakes out of the trees with his home-made slingshot. Pencil-thin snakes, from about 10m range. We would never even notice them before he'd shot them. He shot six over three days, and never missed once. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 18:56 | comment | added | dotancohen | @enkryptor: Thank you, I had no idea! I suppose that the training time that would have to be spent on training soldiers to sling accurately would simply be better spent training on other things as modern soldiers already have weapons accurate to 1 meter at 90 meter's range. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 10:00 | comment | added | enkryptor | I can't agree slings aren't accurate. The size of a target used in a sling competitions is about 1 meter wide. The competitors are supposed to hit them from the 90 meter distance. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 8:15 | history | answered | dotancohen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |