David killed Goliath with a sling and a rock right? Historians describe that sling as two cords with a leather pouch between them. I think they left out a small detail, probably deliberately.
When I was a kid I made one just like that. I tried many times to find a way to launch a rock from that sling with any amount of power. I swung it around my head and yeah you can throw a rock with it but not much harder than you could throw it by hand. Then one day I guess I was 12 or 13 yrs old I was watching a movie on TV. It was set in ancient times when they laid seige to a city and bombarded it with rocks fired from a trebuchet. That was when it dawned on me. No wonder my sling weapon was no good, it was missing a critical part! It should have had a stick like the arm of the trebuchet!! I said holy shit im gonna try that so I ran outside to the tool shed and tied the two cords of my old sling to the end of an old broom handle. I put a rock in the sling and I was holding the broom handle, knew right then, as I could feel the weight hanging off the other end, this was gonna do something. So I let it hang behind me and I swung it over my head and after a few attempts, holy shit. That rock shot out of the sling and across the field behind our house like a fuckin missile!! I was like hot damn!! So I experimented with different lengths of cord on the sling and different kinds of wood for the long handle. I found a slightly flexible wood worked really well if it made it whip a little it added extra power. I was launching rocks about the size of a baseball and they went a hell of a distance. A truly lethal weapon that if you think about it, would have actually been the precurser to the trebuchet not the other way around. Once someone invented the handheld version like I describe here, they just made them bigger and bigger until they ended up with the seige weapon size trebuchet.
Trebuchet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KCfs2KQKwI
It's a ball thrower. Like a dog walker has. Seriously.
Okay no. It sets it in the ground simply to fling it. How does a chainsaw get up a tree, firing the drop line. Not quite like that. But similar. Sets it in the ground and fires.
That's redundant on the battlefield, unless it's a block formation slowly advancing. Bow and arrows have equally been around since the dawn of mankind and they fire further inflicting better penetration, but the slingshot is quicker. Except it has no real use against armour.
You have killed the mobility, and the speed of its use. Favoring longer range and bigger projectiles.
Your parable about David and Goliath. Is another common story. They all had them. Greek, Summerians, and etc, like good giant slayers. Did it happen probably not. Undoubtedly the slingshot killed.
There is not one shred of evidence, king David existed or even Solomon. Belief gives power. Israel existed after the fall of Babylon. Prior the rest is often common conjecture, rewritten, reshaped, and relayered into a founding narrative.
But you wanted agreement because you didn't understand me. You had no idea about slingshots either. Instead downvotes on me. Not once returned.