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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whistling-sling-bullets-were-roman-troops-secret-weapon/

Some 1,800 years ago, Roman troops used “whistling” sling bullets as a “terror weapon” against their barbarian foes, according to archaeologists who found the cast lead bullets at a site in Scotland.

Weighing about 1 ounce (30 grams), each of the bullets had been drilled with a 0.2-inch (5 millimeters) hole that the researchers think was designed to give the soaring bullets a sharp buzzing or whistling noise in flight.


3 posted on 01/14/2024 11:55:24 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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13 posted on 01/14/2024 4:53:56 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: PeterPrinciple

There was also a whistle that was carried by Roman cavalry to disorient and terrify adversaries, and a broken partial example was found I think in Scotland. It’s around here somewhere, lurkin’ in the FRchives.


16 posted on 01/14/2024 6:47:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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