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What is a flechette?

What is a flechette? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small sharp antipersonnel projectile, used as shrapnel, fired from a shotgun, or scattered from an aircraft.
  2. (dated) The game of lawn darts.
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Small flechette pistols were sold to give civilians a sense of false security against thugs.
Its magnetic accelerator launches a small iron flechette at an extremely high velocity.
Human rights organizations also gathered evidence showing that the tank fired a flechette shell, which unleashes hundreds of dart-like projectiles before the shell hits the ground.
But worse than dense inert metal explosive, white phosphorous, and flechette darts?
Winchester was contracted to develop the multiple flechette 12 gauge round for use in these shotguns.
The PCHR was described as saying that a woman, 37-year-old Nahla Khalil Najjar, suffered injuries to her chest in the flechette shelling, and pictures purporting to show the ammunition were passed on by a PCHR fieldworker.

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