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In military use, [[flechette]] ammunition has also been used in shotguns (primarily by special forces, s

...is another trend, (an example is the German [[Heckler & Koch G11]]). The [[flechette]] is yet another improvement over traditional ammunition, allowing for extr

| 5.56x45mm [[flechette]] ...nited States Army's [[Advanced Combat Rifle]] program. The experimental [[flechette]] firing weapon was not adopted by the US Army and the rifle has not seen a

*[[AAI SFR]] (US - Assault Rifle - 5.56 mm Fléchette: Serial Flechette Rifle )

...ting with a shotgun shell containing 32 darts and ending with single-round flechette "rifles". Winchester and Springfield offered multi-[[barrel]] weapons, whil The [[Steyr ACR]] used new flechette ammunition that was nominally called 5.56 mm, with a very high 4,750 ft/s (

The M203 was the only part of the army's [[SPIW|flechette rifle]] project to go into production. The M203 has been in service since 1

...a barrel accurate?], Dan Lilja</ref> Extremely long projectiles such as [[flechette]]s may require impractically high twist rates; these projectiles must be in

...on of light armor. American troops during the Vietnam War packed their own flechette shotgun rounds, called ''beehive rounds'', after the similar [[artillery]]

...e "Balle Blondeau" (Blondeau slug) and "Balle fleche Sauvestre" (Sauvestre flechette) with steel sabot inside expanding copper body and plastic rear empennage.

... abilities. Just like the kinetic energy penetrator rounds for tanks, the flechette are too long and thin to be stabilized by rifling and perform best from a s

...ge (a "duplex load"), while other researchers investigated the promising [[flechette]] rounds that were even lighter but offered better penetration than even th

|type= [[Flechette]] [[rifle]] }}The '''AO-27''' is a semi automatic, gas-operated 10x54mmR flechette rifle and AK derivative.

...'M1001''' and is a canister round filled with 115 17-grain 2.0-inch long [[flechette]]s. The choice of fin-stabilized flechettes over pellets or similar projec

*Nose Ejection: shrapnel, flechette, star, incendiary.

...ith a small caliber flechette pulled by a 5.56&nbsp;mm diameter sabot. The flechette is launched at a high velocity and the narrow projectile offers excellent p

A '''needlegun''', also known as a '''needler''', '''[[flechette]] gun''' or '''fletcher''', is a [[firearm]] that fires small, sometimes fi ...lby in the Church Committee on [[September 16]] to 18, [[1975]] describing flechette weapons. Charles A. Senseney testified that he was a project engineer of th