The metal projectiles, less than 3cm long, take their name from the French for “little arrows” and have a particularly brutal reputation
, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, report finding thousands of miniature darts embedded in buildings and cars. The metal projectiles, less than 3cm long and known as flechettes, from the French for “little arrows”, have a particularly brutal reputation and are unusual in modern warfare. Why is Russia using them?
America then developed a new, more lethal generation in the 1950s, in a programme codenamed Lazy Dog. A 225kg bomb split open to release more than 10,000 projectiles, each 44mm long. They struck with the force of a bullet and, at around nine hits per square metre, had a good chance of killing anyone in the area. Unlike other bombs, the Lazy Dog made little noise except the patter of steel rain.
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