A flechette or flèchette (/fleɪˈʃɛt/ fle-SHET) is a pointed, fin-stabilized steel projectile. The name comes from French flèchette (from flèche), meaning...
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Needlegun (redirect from Flechette rifle)
known as a needler, flechette gun or fletcher, is a firearm that fires small, sometimes fin-stabilized, metal darts or flechettes. Theoretically, the...
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Retrieved 21 December 2023. Bonizec-Le Louarne, Corentin (22 November 2024). "Fléchettes. Le Morbihannais Thibault Tricole s'offre un ancien champion du monde...
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Special Purpose Individual Weapon (category Flechette firearms)
was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts...
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Lazy Dog munitions had precursors in air-dropped flechettes dating from World War I. These flechettes were used as anti-personnel weapons, in Zeppelin...
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Cocktail Chic (redirect from Les Fléchettes)
original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2009-11-02. "Européennes" lyrics at diggiloo.net Les Fléchettes Myspace fan page Les Fléchettes page at Encyclopedisque.fr...
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Military 12-gauge cartridges (section Flechettes)
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...
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Doom (franchise) (redirect from Ballistic Flechette Guns)
Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall. The series usually...
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AAI ACR (category Flechette firearms)
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...
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Steyr ACR (category Flechette firearms)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Rotary "Flechette Anti-Tank Warhead" Archived 2014-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, Bristol Aerospace, August 2002 "General Purpose Flechette Warhead for...
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fired vertically.[self-published source?][self-published source?] Similar flechette projectiles have been used since World War I. In the 1980s, another kinetic...
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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...
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from their flechette cannon. Four flechettes can vaporize an ordinary human soldier. If they do not strike a living target, the flechettes charge up for...
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but that's not a record". dartsnews.com. Retrieved 31 December 2023. "Fléchettes : Thibault Tricole premier Français à remporter un match en Championnat...
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designed for use underwater. Underwater firearms or needleguns usually fire flechettes or spear-like bolts instead of standard bullets. These may be fired by...
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in static defensive positions as well as ambushes. In particular, the flechette anti-personnel round saw common usage. The M67s were eventually phased...
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AAI CAWS (category Flechette firearms)
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...
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The ACR "rifles" used smoothbore barrels to fire single or multiple flechettes (tiny darts), rather than bullets, per pull of the trigger, to provide...
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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...
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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...
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is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour using a flechette-like, high-sectional density projectile. Like a bullet or kinetic energy...
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high explosive, white phosphorus rounds and an anti-personnel (multiple flechette) round. This gun used a license-made tube of the British Royal Ordnance...
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of 40 mm rounds, including explosive, anti-personnel, smoke, buckshot, flechette (pointed steel projectiles with a vaned tail for stable flight), and illumination...
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munitions was employed on Canberra fleets around the world. Antipersonnel flechette bombs were tested successfully from the Canberra by Rhodesia, but not...
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Heckler & Koch HK CAWS (category Flechette firearms)
of being loaded with 000 Buckshot or with flechettes. Olin, in support of HK's CAW, also offered a fléchette load, using twenty much smaller projectiles...
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Springfield United States 1946 Special Purpose Individual Weapon 12 gauge flechette XM110 5.6×53mm (Project SALVO) United States 1980s Standard Manufacturing...
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relief organizations, attacked civilians attempting to flee, and used flechettes and white phosphorus munitions in an antipersonnel capacity in populated...
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