Flechette rounds have been used before in Gaza, and were declared legal by the Israeli supreme court in 2002. But a 2011 report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem described them as ...

Flechette rounds were particularly useful against human wave attacks, although they do cause higher than normal wear and tear on barrels. Since their invention in the tenth century, ...

Flechette rounds are different. They're full of nasty, tiny spikes which pierce the insides of the target (creating holes through skin, muscle, lungs, heart, vital organs, etc.) and pass through ...

Flechette rounds were particularly useful against human wave attacks, although they do cause higher than normal wear and tear on barrels. The Special Purpose Individual Weapon ...

Israel is phasing out a U.S.-made tank shell that sprays thousands of deadly darts over a wide area, in favour of a more precise round produced locally, the commander of the Armoured Corps said on ...

In Vietnam, America also used artillery-fired flechettes, known as Beehive rounds because of the buzzing of the darts. They could be fused to burst immediately on leaving a gun’s barrel, turning ...

In our unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, each artillery battery had several artillery rounds containing flechettes. These were designed to repel a direct attack on the battery by infantry.

Lethal Russian flechette projectiles hit homes in Ukrainian town of Irpin. ‘They are everywhere,’ say residents By Ivana Kottasová , Oleksandra Ochman and David von Blohn , CNN ...