WWI air-dropped flechettes - photo

**Altair** · Jul 16, 2021, 08:14 AM

Flechettes are anti-personnel projectiles designed to be air-dropped over trenches during WWI.

Previously:

1918 Kettering Bug unmanned aerial torpedo - photos and video
F-100 Super Sabres dropping bombs - GIF
Bombs hitting the planes that dropped them - video
USAAF bombers dropping bombs over France - GIF
WWI improviser anti-aircraft gun from pistols - photo

**Wildwilly** · Jul 16, 2021, 08:09 PM

OUCH....damn that hurts!

**TrickieDickie** · Jul 16, 2021, 10:09 PM

I think they were used in WW2 also

**odd one** · Jul 17, 2021, 05:11 AM

Had flechette rounds in the first gulf war too. About the size of small nails.

**DIYSwede** · Jul 17, 2021, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by odd one

Had flechette rounds in the first gulf war too. About the size of small nails.

"The Meat Grinder"? The Carl Gustaf 84 mm RPG a.k.a. M3 MAAWS, with ADK 401 ammo - 1,100 darts @ 300 meters per second?

Our Peaceniks back here stirred up a row a decade ago over our successful and lucrative export of these mothers...

**N00b Machinist** · Jul 17, 2021, 07:39 AM

So that’s where the idea for Lawn Darts came from!

**TrickieDickie** · Jul 17, 2021, 04:19 PM

N00b
My grandma had a original set of Lawn Darts with the metal tips. After her death my baby sister acquired them back in the late 80's.

**N00b Machinist** · Jul 17, 2021, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by TrickieDickie

N00b
My grandma had a original set of Lawn Darts with the metal tips. After her death my baby sister acquired them back in the late 80's.

Sorry for your loss. It wasn’t the darts, I hope.

**mlochala** · Jul 19, 2021, 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by N00b Machinist

Sorry for your loss. It wasn’t the darts, I hope.

I chuckled way too much at this response.

**TrickieDickie** · Jul 19, 2021, 09:19 AM

I am smiling at that response too. No it wasn't a dart from the game but one of the grand-kids was struck by a dart once (thats the reason the manufacture changed the design to plastic tip, too many getting hurt). Grandma did play the game but died of natural causes at a ripe old age.