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Well, a small lead sling projectile is about the size of a large bullet. It is trown with great speed, but I don't think it's as fast as a bullet. A sling is relatively weak at a short distance. Speed and stealth count. If you sling at somebody from an ambush, they see you rise and sling, and they return fire before you even hit them. So I guess the sling is a battlefield weapon. Large armies entering your range can take significant damage from slings, archers are outranged by it, and it works relatively well against armor. When a submachiner comes arround the corner however, he can kill lots of slingers before they can even try to do something back. A newer function of the sling could be grenade trowing, they are lighter, smaller and more silent then the modern devices. However, with large range and security, and far less training needed, the modern devices win again. And that leaves the sling as a riot weapon. Cheap and easy to make, and far superior to trowing stones with your hands, especially since the last option requires you to be very close to the enemy. So against modern guns I'm affraid that the sling might be a model to old, which of course still is a very respectable score for one of the earliëst weapons...
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