Lethal Darts Fired Into Ukrainian Neighborhood

Washington Post: “These projectiles, called fléchettes, are rarely seen or used in modern conflict… At 3 centimeters in length, these fléchettes look like tiny arrows. They have a long history in war — a version of them was dropped from airplanes in World War I and used by the U.S. in Vietnam — but are not in common use today. Shells packed with fléchettes are primed to explode over infantry formations and spew projectiles in a conical pattern, with some versions dispersing fléchettes across an area three football fields wide.”