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- A flechette or flèchette (/fleɪˈʃɛt/ fle-SHET) is a pointed, fin-stabilized steel projectile. The name comes from French flèchette (from flèche), meaning...
- known as a needler, flechette gun or fletcher, is a firearm that fires small, sometimes fin-stabilized, metal darts or flechettes. Theoretically, the...
- was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts...
- The AAI ACR was a prototype flechette-firing ****ault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989/90. Although the AAI design proved...
- 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...
- The Steyr ACR was a prototype flechette-firing ****ault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989/90. Although the Steyr design...
- 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...
- packed with metal flechettes fired from an artillery gun most po****rly deplo**** during that conflict. It is also known as flechette rounds or their official...
- 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...
- Reuters. He was killed, along with eight bystanders (aged 12 to 20) by a flechette s**** fired by an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip in an attack referred...