15 AMAZING Ancient Ranged Weapons

War and weaponry are as old as human civilization, and as time rolls on, we become more and more innovative in the way we conduct war. But humans who lived long ago had the same creativity and ingenuity we have today. Let's take a lock at the top 15 most amazing ancient ranged weapons.

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[davidhaynes]

Sling shots and sling fire weapons are an effective and economical weapon. Still used.

[philippe]

The Australian aborigines did not know of the bow and arrows. So it was not found on "all continents and countries".

[grammybear]

🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼 ❤️

[jodo]

I like how they talk about a bouncing axe, with no footage of it bouncing..

Next up, Bigfoot, with no footage of Bigfoot.

[petertrevorah]

0.54 Error: The bow and arrow did not make it to the continent of Australia. Hunting weapons of spear, woomera and boomerang persisted to modern times.

[gazzas]

The first people in Australia have used the spear thrower for 10's of thousands of years. They called it a Woomera.

[ered]

Bola's don't require that much practice to get proficient. They are pretty forgiving as far as hitting a target because of the way they spread out. What takes years is to be able to get close enough to something to properly utilize one. You are not going to get much range. They skip a little too when they hit the ground and can be sort of glided across the grass to get something's legs.
As you may have been able to tell, as a kid, we made some of these in boy scouts and spent a few summers throwing them at each other. The trick to not getting hurt is to freeze as soon as you feel one hit your legs. Don't try and leap out. You're gonna face-plant.

[spyter]

Greek fires translation in greek literally means "Liquid Fire"

[amenhotepavoskin]

And then, they invented the deadliest weapon of all times: propaganda.

[robfinch]

3:13 It is physically impossible for the spear to accelerate after it has left the thrower regardless of how its springing or bouncing. To accelerate it must receive more energy (action x reaction) Its speed is determined by the amount of energy imparted to it at the time it leaves spear thrower and that is time of its maximum acceleration, the same as a bullet from a barrel of a gun. Thereafter its velocity can only decay.

[guessundheit]

Bolas aren't outdated. They're still used in South America by gauchos when herding animals, much the same way the lasso and hogtie is used in North America.

[soggycarrot]

YES, finally a chance to brag about atlatl. I was ranked top 10 in the world for the youth category on the world atlatl association.

[jkre]

11:54, 11:59 and 10:08 those are not spring bows, those are crossbows, the last one isn't even with a steel prod (crossbows bow part is called prod), but a wooden one.

[bigschnozer]

I can’t believe how many raptors I’ve bolad in ARK

[Lavenish]

9:23 "They were essentially the guns of the medieval period" Guns were the guns of the medieval period not crossbows, crossbows were just also good.

[KathrynLiz]

The Australian Aborigines were using spear throwers (called a "Woomera") over 20, 000 year ago....they also perfected the throwing stick (Boomerang) thousands of years ago.. They have lived in OZ for 40-60 thousand years, so had plenty of development time...

[davegoldspink]

As good as this video is it does show you how little people outside of Australia know about our country, it’s history and 2 of the world’s oldest weapons ever created the boomerang and spear thrower called a woomera. Fun fact the Australian Aboriginals were the only people never to adopt the bow and arrow.

[MrMZaccone]

One correction: Blowgun darts don't need to be dipped in poison to be deadly. They can be given small, thin, bladed heads that can wreak havoc on organs and the circulatory system, including the heart. There is a video here on Youtube of a man in South Africa killing a 100 + pound alpha male baboon with a single dart to the heart. Afflicted with a minimum of pain and no cognition of what had actually been done to it, the animal lay down and died only a few feet from where it was shot as if going to sleep. Blowguns can offer shocking velocity, accuracy, and penetration at middle distances, on the order of 400 feet per second and groups of an inch or less. I myself have hunted small game with them for decades and taken such animals as rabbits and birds at ranges approaching 30 yards. During target practice, I've sent piano wire darts easily through both sides of an old-style steel coffee can from across two rooms of the house.

[FastEddy]

I thought I’d read that the “nest of bees” was singularly ineffective. It was both notoriously unreliable and inaccurate.
The strangest thing about “Greek Fire” as that, even today, we don’t know what it really was. There are many ideas about its make up, but none have all the characteristics described by historians.
Did I miss the catapult?

[stamatisfreskos]

The trebuchet does not trace back to the 6th century, it goes back to the end of the 4th century actually.