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Pointed, fin-stabilized steel projectile
A flechette or fléchette (/fleɪˈʃɛt/ flay-SHET) is a pointed, fin-stabilized steel projectile. The name comes from French fléchette (from flèche), meaning
Flechette
Firearm that fires small metal darts
known as a needler, flechette gun or fletcher, is a firearm that fires small, sometimes fin-stabilized, metal darts or flechettes. Theoretically, the
Needlegun
Grenade launcher
of 40 mm rounds including explosive, anti-personnel, smoke, buckshot, flechette (pointed steel projectiles with a vaned tail for stable flight), and illumination
M79_grenade_launcher
Artillery round
packed with metal flechettes fired from an artillery gun most popularly deployed during that conflict. It is also known as flechette rounds or their official
Beehive_anti-personnel_round
Bullpup flechette rifle
was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts
Special Purpose Individual Weapon
Special_Purpose_Individual_Weapon
Firearms that can be effectively fired underwater
designed for use underwater. Underwater firearms or needleguns usually fire flechettes or spear-like bolts instead of standard bullets. These may be fired by
Underwater_firearm
Assault rifle
fin-stabilized flechette sabot round. The flechette itself had a body diameter of 3 mm. The overall length of the round was 63 mm, and the flechette 55 mm. The
AO-27_rifle
1986–1990 US Army program
line of experimental fléchette rifles. Their entry used a standard 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge case firing a 1.6×41.27mm fléchette of 0.66 grams at 1402 m/s
Advanced_Combat_Rifle
Assault rifle/Flechette rifle
The AAI ACR was a prototype flechette-firing assault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989/90. Although the AAI design proved
AAI_ACR
Bullpup assault rifle/Flechette rifle
The Steyr ACR was a prototype flechette-firing assault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989/90. Although the Steyr design
Steyr_ACR
High density non-explosive projectile
is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour using a flechette-like, high-sectional density projectile. Like a bullet or kinetic energy
Kinetic_energy_penetrator
2007 video game
using their flechette guns to protect them. Hunters primarily attack the player by bracing themselves and firing bursts from their flechette cannon. Four
Half-Life_2:_Episode_Two
Anti-personnel explosive device
areas than the explosives alone would. A nail bomb is also a type of flechette weapon. Such weapons use bits of shrapnel (steel balls, nail heads, screws
Nail_bomb
Military use of combat shotgun cartridges
Cartridge Company contained twenty flechettes 18.5 millimetres (0.73 in) long and weighing 7.3 grains (0.47 g) each. The flechettes were packed in a plastic cup
Military_12-gauge_cartridges
U.S. airdropped kinetic weapon
Lazy Dog munitions had precursors in air-dropped flechettes dating from World War I. These flechettes were used as anti-personnel weapons. Lazy Dogs in
Lazy_Dog_(bomb)
American type of recoilless rifle
in static defensive positions as well as ambushes. In particular, the flechette anti-personnel round saw common usage. The M67s were eventually phased
M67_recoilless_rifle
French poet and novelist (born 1986)
Graine Lumière Cuire (éditions Sun/Sun with the Musée Albert-Khan, coll. « Fléchette », 2024) La Semaine perpétuelle (Éditions du sous-sol, 2021). The Endless
Laura_Vazquez
Soviet 122 mm self-propelled howitzer
capable of firing HE (high explosive), leaflet, HE/RAP, armor-piercing HE, flechette and chemical rounds. The first prototype was ready in 1958. The 2S1 entered
2S1_Gvozdika
Self-contained cartridge loaded with either shot or a solid slug
the mass of the shot charge. Other unusual projectiles such as saboted flechettes, rubber balls, rock salt, and magnesium shards also exist. Cartridges
Shotgun_cartridge
Experimental military shotgun ammunition
ammunition created in the 1970s by AAI Corporation. It was a variation on flechette ammunition, but instead of containing a bundle of tiny needle-like steel
SCMITR
Palestinian journalist (1984 – 2008)
Reuters. He was killed, along with eight bystanders (aged 12 to 20) by a flechette shell fired by an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip in an attack referred
Fadel_Shana'a
American assault rifle
Combat Rifle program, in which the caseless Heckler & Koch G11 and various flechette rifles were tested, but this was quickly dropped as these designs were
M4_carbine
American third-generation main battle tank
high explosive, white phosphorus rounds and an anti-personnel (multiple flechette) round. This gun used a license-made tube of the British Royal Ordnance
M1_Abrams
Five-barreled underwater rocket dart pistol
styles of barrel assembly can be used: one containing five 7.62×36mm flechette darts for use underwater, or five 133-grain bullets for use above water
Heckler_&_Koch_P11
Triangular firearms cartridge
barrels) and strength of the tround when used with the high-velocity flechette ammunition. The Tround Terra-drill is described in patent 4,004,642, issued
Dardick_tround
High velocity projectile alignment device
ammunitions to fit/patch around a projectile, such as a bullet/slug or a flechette-like projectile (such as a kinetic energy penetrator), and keep it aligned
Sabot_(firearms)
Recoilless rifle
employed in an antipersonnel role with the use of an antipersonnel-tracer flechette round. The bore was commonly described as being 106 mm caliber but is
M40_recoilless_rifle
Firearm loaded with a cartridge of pellets
increase stability in flight. Flechette rounds contain aerodynamic darts, typically from 8 to 20 in number. The flechettes provide greatly extended range
Shotgun
Canadian 2.75-inch rocket
effect led to the WDU-5002/B FAT warhead, Flechette Anti-Tank, containing five tungsten-reinforced steel flechettes that could penetrate a T-72's side and
CRV7
Grooves in a weapon barrel for accuracy
as it travels down the bore. An extremely long projectile, such as a flechette, requires impractically high twist rates to stabilize; it is often stabilized
Rifling
1996 video game
Marathon 2 except for the addition of a new weapon, the "KKV-7 10mm SMG Flechette". The player is placed into a usually semi-nonlinear level and is generally
Marathon_Infinity
Soviet family of air-launched rockets
S-5S Flechette ? ? ? Warhead contains 1,000 to 1,100 40 mm long flechettes. S-5SB Flechette ? ? ? Warhead contains 1,000 to 1,100 40 mm long flechettes. Code
S-5_rocket
Weapon based solely on a projectile's kinetic energy
javelins, to modern tapered high-velocity impactors such as bullets, flechettes, and penetrators. Typical kinetic weapons accelerate their projectiles
Kinetic_energy_weapon
Orbit to planetary surface attack with inert projectiles
fired vertically.[self-published source?][self-published source?] Similar flechette projectiles have been used since World War I. In the 1980s, another kinetic
Kinetic_bombardment
American 2.75-inch rocket
warhead 2500 28 grains (1.8 g) flechettes 9 M255E1/A1 Flechette warhead 14.0 lb (6.4 kg) 1179 60 grains (3.9 g) flechettes M439 9 M257 Parachute illumination
Hydra_70
Detonation of an explosive above a target for increased pressure wave damage
Killers Junior and Senior were developed as alternatives to the Beehive flechette rounds previously used against nearby enemy troops. The advantage of the
Air_burst
Darts that some snails shoot into each other during mating
action is more analogous to stabbing, or to being shot with an arrow or flechette. The dart does not fly through the air to reach its target, but is "fired"
Love_dart
Bullpup automatic shotgun
of being loaded with 000 Buckshot or with flechettes. Olin, in support of HK's CAWS, also offered a flechette load, using twenty much smaller projectiles
Heckler_&_Koch_HK_CAWS
Air-to-ground military rocket system
High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge Multi-purpose fragmentation Flechette anti-personnel/materiel Smoke Illuminating Training rocket The Système
SNEB
Soviet 152 mm towed howitzer
incendiary. Later projectiles include bomblet, anti-personnel land mine, flechette, Krasnopol precision-guided munition (PGM), communication jammer, and
152_mm_gun-howitzer_D-20
Pre-assembled firearm ammunition
shot. There are also unconventional projectile fillings such as bundled flechettes, rubber balls, rock salt and magnesium shards, as well as non-lethal specialty
Cartridge_(firearms)
Weapon that has a barrel without rifling
The ACR "rifles" used smoothbore barrels to fire single or multiple flechettes (tiny darts), rather than bullets, per pull of the trigger, to provide
Smoothbore
Killing of civilians by Israeli army at Bureij
Palestine Date 16 April 2008; 18 years ago (2008-04-16) Attack type Tank shelling Weapons Flechette shell Deaths 9 Perpetrator Israel Defense Forces
Al_Bureij_killings
50 BMG United States 1990s Special Purpose Individual Weapon 12 gauge flechette XM110 5.6×53mm (Project SALVO) United States 1980s Standard Manufacturing
List_of_bullpup_firearms
Family of assault and attack helicopters
ground actions, the Mi-24 also protected convoys, using rockets with flechette warheads to drive off ambushes; performed strikes on predesignated targets;
Mil_Mi-24
relief organizations, attacked civilians attempting to flee, and used flechettes and white phosphorus munitions in an antipersonnel capacity in populated
Israeli_war_crimes
Long-ranged guns for land warfare
types of bursting shell. Nose ejection: shrapnel, star, incendiary and flechette (a more modern version of shrapnel). Base ejection: Dual-Purpose Improved
Artillery
Blackout United States 2011 AAI ACR AAI Corporation 5.56×45mm sub-calibre flechette United States no 1989 AC-556 Sturm, Ruger & Co. .223 Remington United
List_of_assault_rifles
Soviet underwater assault firearm firing unrifled steel flechettes
Soviet underwater assault firearm firing unrifled steel flechettes
APS_underwater_rifle
1977 film by John Frankenheimer
attack using a bomb composed of plastique and a quarter-million steel flechettes. They plan to mount the bomb on the underside of the gondola of the Goodyear
Black_Sunday_(1977_film)
Intermediate rifle cartridge
conventional 4.32mm rounds were hoped to give better accuracy than AAI's earlier flechette cartridges while retaining their low recoil impulse. 4.85×49mm "(004)
4.32x45mm_SBR
American 2.75-inch precision guided rocket
engagement ranged from 2–4 km using inert Mk152 high explosive and MK149 flechette warheads. The UH-1Y had the boats designated by an MH-60S. October 2013:
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System
Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System
French cycling club
have participated in all editions of the event since 1948). The Fléchette Vélocio (fléchette means little arrow, dart) was tested by a team of ACP-members
Audax_Club_Parisien
Austrian manufacturer of firearms
Die Hard. Assault rifles AUG – bullpup assault rifle ACR – experimental flechette rifle STM556 – modular assault rifle Steyr G62 - upgraded G36 Battle rifles
Steyr_Arms
Anti-zeppelin weapon
the First World War. It was an air-dropped 1-pound (450 g) explosive flechette-type of missile-shaped bomb which was 13 inches (330 mm) long and 5.9
Ranken_dart
Shotgun that is intended for use in an offensive role, typically by a military force
are commonly used to discourage looters and rioters. In military use, flechette ammunition has also been used in shotguns (primarily by special forces
Combat_shotgun
Rimless, centerfire, bottlenecked rifle cartridge
load). At the same time, other researchers investigated the promising flechette rounds that were lighter but offered better penetration than even the
7.62×51mm_NATO
Automatic shotgun
035 oz) drag stabilized flechettes. All eight flechettes were able to hit a 4 m (4.4 yd) circle at 150 m (160 yd). The flechettes at that range had a velocity
AAI_CAWS
Aerodynamic stabilization of arrows
techniques. The fins used to stabilize rockets work in a similar manner. Flechette Fletcher (surname) Hane, fletching of the Japanese arrow (ya). Worshipful
Fletching
2022 massacre by Russian forces in Ukraine
that dozens of bodies had flechettes in them. Unnamed eyewitnesses in Bucha had previously reported the firing of flechette rounds by Russian artillery
Bucha_massacre
Object propelled through the air
javelins, to modern tapered high-velocity impactors such as bullets, flechettes, and penetrators. Typical kinetic weapons accelerate their projectiles
Projectile
Marvel Comics character
at high velocity. Their arsenal of projectiles include steel darts ("flechettes"), gas pellets, small explosives, magnesium flares and cleaning fluid
Prowler_(Marvel_Comics)
Soviet four-barreled underwater dart pistol
The SPP-1 underwater pistol was made in the Soviet Union for use by Soviet frogmen as an underwater firearm. It was developed in the late 1960s and accepted
SPP-1_underwater_pistol
French band
They were spotted by singing star Claude François, who renamed them Les Fléchettes (after Flèche, his newly formed record label). They released several singles
Cocktail_Chic
Early British jet bomber
munitions was employed on Canberra fleets around the world. Antipersonnel flechette bombs were tested successfully from the Canberra by Rhodesia, but not
English_Electric_Canberra
Specification for ammunition
consisting of a cloth bag filled with lead pellets Lethal rounds: buckshot flechette rounds Such rounds are not considered destructive devices, but are not
37_mm_flare
Man-portable multi-role weapon system
warhead to defeat ERA ADM 401: Area defense munition – ADM 401 has 1100 flechettes and ADM 401B has ball bearings ASM 509: Anti-structure munition (Thermobaric)
Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle
Carl_Gustaf_8.4_cm_recoilless_rifle
Soviet/Russian air-launched military rocket
5 kg of chaff 2 to 3 km 545 m/s velocity. S-8S Flechette 1.612 m 13 kg 4.3 kg 1.2 to 3.5 km 2,000 flechettes in 5 bundles S-8TsM Target marking 1.605 m 11
S-8_(rocket)
Anti-materiel rifle
The Steyr Infantry Weapon System 2000 (IWS 2000) is a single-shot, bolt-action anti-materiel rifle produced by Austrian firearm manufacturer Steyr Mannlicher
Steyr_IWS_2000
System of operation used to provide energy to operate autoloading firearms
cartridge did not lend itself to this type of operation "Flirting With Flechettes: The US Army's Search for the Ideal Rifle Projectile". Cruffler.com. May
Gas-operated_reloading
FZ71 HE, FZ319 HEAP, FZ181 Flash Signature, FZ120 Inert Practice, FZ122 Flechette, FZ149 MULTIDART". fz.be. Retrieved 2025-02-23. "Thales Belgium (BL VTS)
List of aircraft weapons in production and in development by the European defence industry
List_of_aircraft_weapons_in_production_and_in_development_by_the_European_defence_industry
Type of firearm action
cartridge did not lend itself to this type of operation "Flirting With Flechettes: The US Army's Search for the Ideal Rifle Projectile". Cruffler.com. May
Blowback_(firearms)
1928 short story by Robert Musil
get struck by a flechette. He entered a mental state that felt unreal. He neither said anything nor moved. After a moment, a flechette hit the ground close
The_Blackbird_(short_story)
Shaped charge designed to penetrate armor effectively
(4): 1686–1697. doi:10.1016/j.acme.2018.06.006. Explosively Produced Flechettes; JASON report 66-121, Institute for Defense Analysis, 1966 Interview with
Explosively_formed_penetrator
Ammunition type for tanks
to nearby troops. The saboted flechette was the counterpart of APFSDS in rifle ammunition. A rifle for firing flechettes, the Special Purpose Individual
Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot
Armour-piercing_fin-stabilized_discarding_sabot
Wesson 12 gauge 20 gauge Turkey 2007 Smith & Wesson AS 12 gauge 12 gauge flechette United States 1980s Smith & Wesson Elite Series 12 gauge 20 gauge Turkey
List_of_shotguns
Grenade suitable for use with a grenade launcher
HVCC, high-velocity canister cartridge Canister shot containing several flechettes. Produces a 3 to 4 ft (0.91 to 1.2 m) wide dispersion pattern at 50 m
List_of_40_mm_grenades
Attack helicopter series of the British Army
Hellfire (and Starstreak (proposed), Brimstone proposed) Rockets: CRV7 with Flechette (Tungsten dart) or High-Explosive Incendiary Semi-Armour Piercing (HEISAP)
AgustaWestland_Apache
Projectile propelled by a firearm, sling, or air gun
cartridges List of rifle cartridges Table of handgun and rifle cartridges Flechette – Pointed, fin-stabilized steel projectile Meplat – Flat or open tip on
Bullet
Anti-personnel artillery munitions
round. Unlike the shrapnel shells’ balls, the splintex shells contained flechettes. The result was the 105 mm M546 APERS-T (anti-personnel-tracer) round
Shrapnel_shell
Automatic shotgun (AS-3) Semi-automatic shotgun (AS-1 and AS-2) Assault shotgun
(4.42 kg) Barrel length 18.0 in (457 mm) Cartridge 12-gauge 12-gauge flechette Action Short recoil Rate of fire Semi (AS-1) Semi & 3 round burst (AS-2)
Smith_&_Wesson_AS
Bullpup grenade launcher
of 51 lb (23 kg). Caliber: Low-velocity 25mm × 40 grenade Thermobaric Flechette Training High-explosive airbursting round (HEAB) Non-lethal Armor Piercing
XM25_CDTE
Air-to-surface rocket
diameter, HART would be powered by a solid-fueled rocket, and would use flechette anti-personnel warheads to provide the greatest possible effect against
AGR-14_ZAP
Weapons used in the Vietnam war
incendiary purposes. Smoke shells – used for screening. Leaflet shell Beehive flechette rounds – antipersonnel rounds. Improved conventional munition – antipersonnel
List of weapons of the Vietnam War
List_of_weapons_of_the_Vietnam_War
Italian-American skateboarder, rapper (b. 1997)
2020. "Pre-Order Armand Hammer's SHRINES now & check out ShrapKnel's Flechette". "Wiki Announces New Album Produced by Navy Blue, Shares Video for New
Sage_Elsesser
flank flatter flattery flatulence flatulent flavour or *flavor flèche flechette fleuret flexibility flexible floral floret, Old Fr. florette, compare
List of English words of French origin (D–I)
List_of_English_words_of_French_origin_(D–I)
Explosive with focused effect
Straus and Giroux. p. 159. ISBN 0-374-51598-0. Explosively Produced Flechettes (Report). JASON Report. Institute for Defense Analysis. 1966. "Interview
Shaped_charge
Hurled weapon with a sharp point
type of dart still finds use in military engagements, in the form of flechettes. These are all-metal projectiles, often resembling nails that have had
Dart_(missile)
1995 video game
between the other two classes. Additionally, certain items, such as the flechette (poison gas bomb), behave differently when collected and used by each
Hexen:_Beyond_Heretic
Part of the Vietnam War (1968)
Platoon armed with high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) and anti-personnel flechette ammunition were sited to support the forward machine-guns. Due to their
Battle_of_Coral–Balmoral
American light tank
13-grain flechettes from the muzzle. Could be used to clear foliage or against personnel. XM617, anti-personnel round firing 8,200 fléchettes. XM410-WP
M551_Sheridan
1975 novel by American writer Thomas Harris
suicide attack using a bomb composed of plastique and a quarter million flechettes, housed on the underside of the gondola of the blimp, which they will
Black_Sunday_(novel)
Border skirmishes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Troebortnoe [ru]. Russian forces used flechettes on border villages in the Shostka district on 30 May. The flechettes were used to previously kill civilians
Northern Ukraine border skirmishes
Northern_Ukraine_border_skirmishes
anti-air weaponry and destroy them thanks to Mao shooting them with a flechette round. Koko calls and makes a deal with Scarecrow and Schokolade that
List_of_Jormungand_episodes
Shafted projectile that is shot with a bow
Crossbow bolt, also known as a "quarrel" Early thermal weapons Fire arrow Flechette Flu-flu arrow Signal arrow Swiss arrow The Handbook Of The SAS And Elite
Arrow
Bunker-busting artillery shell
Roechlingranaten des Heeres". www.balsi.de. Retrieved 2016-08-03. "Premier obus flêchette". Les Canons de l'Apocalypse (in French). 30 December 2012. Retrieved
Röchling_shell
bandcamp.com. "Pre-Order Armand Hammer's SHRINES now & check out ShrapKnel's Flechette". Mailchi.mp. "MIKE Enlists Earl Sweatshirt for New Song". Pitchfork.
Earl_Sweatshirt_discography
Topics referred to by the same term
a firearm that fires small, sometimes fin-stabilized, metal darts or flechettes Nerf Blaster, a toy gun made by Hasbro that fires foam darts Spear-thrower
Dart_gun_(disambiguation)
Type of light artillery gun
chassis. They were largely used in an anti-personnel role firing "beehive" flechette rounds. In 1970, the Ontos was removed from service and most were broken
Recoilless_rifle
Polish musician (born 1971)
80 Minutes of Funk (2012, Clan Destine; (split with Curt Crackrach) De fléchettes (2013, Clan Destine; collaboration with Skitter) Tumult in Clouds (2013
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