A flechette (/fleɪˈʃɛt/ fle-SHET) is a pointed, fin-stabilized steel projectile. The name comes from French fléchette, meaning "little arrow" or "dart"...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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types of bursting shell. Nose ejection: shrapnel, star, incendiary and flechette (a more modern version of shrapnel). Base ejection: Dual-Purpose Improved...
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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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shot. There are also unconventional projectile fillings such as bundled flechettes, rubber balls, rock salt and magnesium shards, as well as non-lethal specialty...
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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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increase stability in flight. Flechette rounds contain aerodynamic darts, typically from 8 to 20 in number. The flechettes provide greatly extended range...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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