flechettes (military weapon)

Klee's abstractions also featured weapon-related imagery—such as arrows and exploding zigzags—that the curator says may have been lost on some audiences. The arrows reference “flechettes,” short steel rods with extremely sharp points and fins to facilitate speed. Used by various armies at the time, ...

The requirements list — obtained by Defense News — would “provide opportunities to accelerate the Army's readiness and lethality to meet combatant commanders and the National Defense Strategy requirements,” according to the letter accompanying the list sent to Senate Appropriations Defense ...

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Jacketed hollow points are considerably more lethal than regular bullet ammunition. While hollow points have never caught on with regular military forces they are quite common in the self-defense market. Some hollow point rounds—such as Hornady Critical Defense ammunition—have a polymer dot in ...

The U.S. Army is once again looking into what it would take to replace the venerable 5.56mm cartridge and weapons that use it like the M16 and M4. Kickstarted at a time of major firearms developments across the U.S. military, it's still not clear whether the new plan will succeed where previous efforts have ...

The weapon in its modern form dates back to World War I, when it was one of the first weapons used by the then-novel airplane. These early aviators simply emptied buckets of flechettes onto enemy infantry troops below. Dispersed in this way, without a modern explosive charge or shell, their lethality was a ...

Israel stands accused of using deadly flechette shells in Gaza, a weapon described as illegal under "rules of humanitarian law" by one Israeli human rights ... "As a rule, the IDF only employs weapons that have been determined lawful under international law, and in a manner which fully conforms with the ...

An image provided by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights of darts from a flechette shell it says the Israeli military fired in Gaza last week. ... "As a rule, the IDF only employs weapons that have been determined lawful under international law, and in a manner which fully conforms with the laws of armed ...