There wasn't much meat left after the primary detonation would pierce the soft flesh of the bird but it's tradition.
More oxygen, bigger bugs, bigger birds.
Neanderthals built the first Buick. It was the only way to take down the giant ants. The birds were relatively easy.
Aiming is still important obviously, but when you start training on these from the age of 6 years old it becomes just as accurate as the older non-atlatl versions
You didn't have one? Oh man, those were a blast! A shame little Timmy got his nuts blown off, but hey, that class was worth it!
I've never held an rpg-7, but what I know of Russian engineering is that it must be so well balanced and fly so true.
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What you’ve never heard of variable bore artillery? This lets the round juke while in flight. /s
I'm conflicted because I'm quite fond of that moment when someone you love tucks your hair behind your ear, but maybe less so using a bullet.
That's why you need higher engineering safety margins! Then it doesn't matter how square your barrels are!
If you throw it in a 45 angle, it's exactly like the Javelin missile but 100x cheaper. Genius!
I'm actually surprised now that I'm thinking about it that there aren't grenade flinging devices like this.
the device you're thinking about is called rifle grenade (soldiers already carry rifles with them)
sometimes 40mm UBGL fills the same role. grenade throwing device like this would probably require different fuzes (longer delay) and it will be much less controllable than anything actually launched (you don't want live grenades ending up nearby by accident, not an option with rifle grenades or 40mms)
the entire idea kinda died off because you can't fit in rifle grenade anything actually useful against tanks for example, but one resurgence would be 82mm mortars attached to PG-7 series rocket engine and launched from RPG-7, used by Ukrainians
Or you can just use a giant winch-operated catapult instead.