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flechette

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flé·chette  (fl-sht, fl-)
n.
A steel missile or dart dropped from an aircraft or fired from an artillery piece.

[French, diminutive of flèche, arrow; see flèche.]


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Early in the deployment, the AIF attacked Camp Falcon with light and medium mortars (60-mm and 82-mm) integrated with deadly and accurate light to medium rockets (57-mm, 67-mm flechette, 100-mm, 107-mm, 122-mm and 127-mm) from improvised rocket launchers, trays and earthen berms.
Palestinian doctors have removed many flechettes from the dead and injured, indicating the IDF are using illegal fragmentation bombs.
Players begin the game with a pneumatic flechette dart gun to immobilize enemies, but can quickly secure more powerful weaponry, such as the assault rifle, flamethrower and the variable-ammo grenade launcher.
 
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