A flechette or flèchette (/ fleɪˈʃɛt / fle-SHET) is a pointed, fin-stabilized steel projectile. The name comes from French flèchette (from flèche), meaning "little arrow" or "dart", and sometimes retains the grave accent in English: flèchette.

Feb 29, 2024 · Flechettes will penetrate the thick skull of an enraged bull or a 1000-pound hog when buckshot may fail. Flechettes have proven effective on deer, turkey, wild hog, and bear and are earning a devoted following among hunters.

Apr 24, 2022 · The metal projectiles, less than 3cm long and known as flechettes, from the French for “little arrows”, have a particularly brutal reputation and are unusual in modern warfare.

A flechette / flɛˈʃɛt / fleh-SHET is a pointed steel projectile, with a vaned tail for stable flight. The name comes from French fléchette, "little arrow" or "dart", and sometimes retains the acute accent in English: fléchette. Examples of various small arms flechettes. (Scale in inches.) APS amphibious rifle.

Flechettes (French for: ‘dart’ or ‘little arrow’) were mass produced steel darts designed to be dropped from aircraft during the First World War with devastating effect before aerial bombs became more widely used.

Apr 26, 2022 · Known as fléchettes, The Guardian said the dart-shaped weapons have been found “embedded in people’s heads and chests” by pathologists and coroners who are carrying out post-mortems on the bodies...

May 13, 2015 · Flechettes are an antipersonnel weapon consisting of many small, solid metal projectiles with fins -- hence the name "flechettes." The fins give the metal projectiles greater stability in flight and more penetrative impact than would be true of other shrapnel fragments or round metal balls, once packed into an explosive canister and launched ...

Flechettes are fin stabilized steel projectiles similar in appearance to arrows which have a long history of munitions use. The first projectiles used in early gun systems from the 1300's were flechettes 1, they were hand wrought of iron and wrapped with a leather sabot obturating the bore.

Apr 28, 2022 · Large number of miniature darts, known as fléchettes, have been found embedded in buildings and vehicles in Bucha, a city on the periphery of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital.

Mar 3, 2018 · These flechettes are essentially very short rods made out of steel with a sharp pointy end, and fins on the other end to facilitate a smooth flight – or technically, descent, as the flechettes were dropped from the sky onto enemy troops as a form of medievalesque bomb.