Flechettes

**US-Subs** · 7th October 2009, 05:23 AM

By the way - anyone with flechettes, I'm always looking for new ones to buy or trade.... Despite my time in Europe I've only got one of the WWI style. Drop me an e-mail if you got any for sale -

**HAZORD** · 7th October 2009, 05:37 AM

Jeff,

Photo number 4, what round is that layer of flechettes from that has the ratchet drive plate?

**US-Subs** · 7th October 2009, 05:56 AM

I pulled it out of a 105mm, no ID or model number stamped on it. I think I may still have the round.

**pzgr40** · 7th October 2009, 08:48 AM

Here a picture of a 12 gauge flechette round as used in military style shotguns.

**E-tech** · 7th October 2009, 11:37 AM

Beautiful collection! Wish I had more than just a few flechettes from old 2.75" rockets in my collection. I've been looking for flechettes from the Passive Attack Weapon for a while (even in the country they were used in!)- no luck. Any ideas?
It seems that more ammo is being made in the "subprojectile carrier" class now- the Russians have pre-set timed burst charges in land-attack cannons for aircraft, and America is finalizing a 25 to 30mm projectile for AFV and APC type of weapons systems (including a programmable time-to-burst. But, rather than use flechettes, everyone uses cylinders or spheres of tungsten. I've even run across an 8" base-ejecting artillery shell filled with something like 3000 tungsten BBs.
There is, also, the (now squashed) idea of the non-nuclear strategic missile- an ICBM with tungsten bars of various sizes that are scattered at a certain height after re-entry, with the kinetic energy to take out a city block.
Kind of makes you think twice before uttering bold statements like: "then we shall fight in the shade". don't you think?

**US-Subs** · 7th October 2009, 11:57 AM

Interesting take. Talking about it with a colleague across our desks, he found this link:
http://pjm.math.berkeley.edu/jomms/2...-n10-p06-p.pdf

**E-tech** · 7th October 2009, 12:57 PM

Let us not forget the "rods from God" idea!
A twenty fool long, one foot wide tungsten "telephone pole" with a satellite guidance system that drops the "rod" from orbit onto it's target at about 9 km/ sec.

**HAZORD** · 7th October 2009, 01:18 PM

I would hate to think what the Rod from God would weigh, being Tungsten 20 ft long by 1 foot in diameter. Would cost a fortune to put it in orbit at $5,000.00 per pound.