[Oswald2001]

Flechettes have very limited applications.

They have a 'cool' factor, but are not very effective outside of a very few circumstances.

Despite their 'arrow' design, they are not aerodynamically stable for most of their flight.

They don't have much mass and velocity drops off drastically within a very short range.

They have an 'instinctively' (?) intriguing design with which arms developers have experimented for decades. Still, flechettes are almost never found in use on the battlefield.

[DCBROWN]

These were developed for use in WW2 but banned by convention. You can sometimes buy them at cheaperthandirt.com and make your own shotgun shells. They may prove usefull in the 2012 apocolypse.

[Martano666]

Lol. The irony at the end of the shotgun video. "Protect Life"

....with bullets.

[Martano666]

Originally Posted by DCBROWN ↗

These were developed for use in WW2 but banned by convention. You can sometimes buy them at cheaperthandirt.com and make your own shotgun shells. They may prove usefull in the 2012 apocolypse.

Lol. You should sell all your belongings and invest in an underground bunker! Many of us already have!

[tonyn]

my dads grandad was killed by a flechette during the first world war, They used to drop them out of aeroplanes over the trenches, tin hats didnt stop them

[.408Cheytac]

Originally Posted by Oswald2001 ↗

Flechettes have very limited applications.

They have a 'cool' factor, but are not very effective outside of a very few circumstances.

Despite their 'arrow' design, they are not aerodynamically stable for most of their flight.

They don't have much mass and velocity drops off drastically within a very short range.

They have an 'instinctively' (?) intriguing design with which arms developers have experimented for decades. Still, flechettes are almost never found in use on the battlefield.

UN members made Flechettes a huge no no... No specific laws were put in place, but almost all nations agreed to not use flechettes in ground combat infantry weapons.

That's why everyone flips a shit at Israel for using them.

[Oswald2001]

Originally Posted by .408Cheytac ↗

UN members made Flechettes a huge no no... No specific laws were put in place, but almost all nations agreed to not use flechettes in ground combat infantry weapons.

That's why everyone flips a shit at Israel for using them.

Yeah. That's just emotional manipulation for political aims.

The fact is that flechettes are just not an optimum design and do not do an efficient job at killing people.

Land mines go in and out of the news as a low level cause celebre from time to time, but they are still used all over the world.

Why?

Because they work and work really really well.

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The photo of the bomblets was interesting.

They did some field testing of dropping huge enormous incalculable amounts of small little solid steel bomblets (from B-52's I think) in Vietnam.

They were definitely lethal, but were determined to be not an efficient enough way to kill sufficient numbers of people and so were dropped (pun intended) from further consideration.

[.408Cheytac]

Originally Posted by Oswald2001 ↗

Yeah. That's just emotional manipulation for political aims.

The fact is that flechettes are just not an optimum design and do not do an efficient job at killing people.

Land mines go in and out of the news as a low level cause celebre from time to time, but they are still used all over the world.

Why?

Because they work and work really really well.

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The photo of the bomblets was interesting.

They did some field testing of dropping huge enormous incalculable amounts of small little solid steel bomblets (from B-52's I think) in Vietnam.

They were definitely lethal, but were determined to be not an efficient enough way to kill sufficient numbers of people and so were dropped (pun intended) from further consideration.

I agree, but they are still used in artillery shells. They are for directive munitions concentrated on a specific target and to minimize collateral damage. Aka "Beehives" still in use.

Landmines are fucking embarrassing.... They don't identify friend or foe, child or adult, women or animals... Yet we plant them on FOREIGN soil!

Sad isn't it?

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[SOTIC]

Um Cheytac, You know I have much respect for your opinions and dig the hell out of your posts, but WE do not use land mines for large grid coverage anymore and have not in many many years and we blow them when we leave.