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? |
Its magnetic accelerator launches a small iron flechette at an extremely high velocity. |
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. |
Winchester was contracted to develop the multiple flechette 12 gauge round for use in these shotguns. |
Small flechette pistols were sold to give civilians a sense of false security against thugs. |