What is "flechettes"

Usage examples of "flechettes".

He gasps as Pierce turns the pistol toward him and the flechettes strike.

The flechettes were loaded with a fast-acting paralytic drug: Pierce found he could still breathe, with effort, but could not move.

The rifle was fully loaded with a clip of drugged flechettes, but the impact setting was a very lethal 10.

The KG-15 sprayed ten flechettes per second through the jeep's open windshield.

If Philon did—and he would—he would be able to spray flechettes under the bus.

Philon's face grew pale except for the three little red wounds where the flechettes had hit.

One flying machine crumpled to her right as she watched, its fuselage smashed by an unseen cloud of hypervelocity flechettes hurled from one of Hector's port-side AP guns.

Larger machines with hardened circuitry succumb to repeated blasts of high-velocity flechettes and point defense lasers.

Hector was swatting them out of the sky almost as swiftly as they arrived, with flickering lasers and shotgun blasts of high-velocity flechettes wrecking !

Each time I fire a Hellbore, tens, even hundreds of floaters drop to the ground, their circuits fried by Hettbore-launch EMPs, or dissolve in fragments as point-defense lasers or high-velocity flechettes slash through them.

I catch a three-meter floater with a full load of high-velocity flechettes as it tries tofoUow Shari Barstowe into the entrance.

Its right arm flew up as if it was going to throw something at them, but then more flechettes struck it and the arm became unhinged, tore off, flew backward.

Savi fired and several hundred barbed, crystal flechettes struck Caliban in the chest, rending flesh like paper.

A circle of water near the far wall erupted in an irregular fountain three feet high as hundreds of flechettes ripped the surface.

There were three more clips of flechettes, each clip holding seven plastic packs of darts.