Flechettes were not made obsolete but simple changed form just as pilots with pistols game way to mounted gun and hand dropped grenades gave way to bombs,
But enlisted is a very strange game with BR many weapons are viable a br1 0r two a plane with these deadly darts could become the terror of infantry and thinly skinned targets,
and impact damage would have to be added, would any dart hit be lethal to infantry, cause bleed or an instant down. how many darts how could we expected darts fall.
as always tell me how rockets and bombs make darts useless and my idea is dumb, but like flame throwers and shotguns it would be interesting to see more than explosions from planes ,
Flechettes were stored in boxes of 250-500 with one payload (or box) being able to cover an area of 500 square yards. They would be released as the plane flew over trenches or exposed infantry from either the cockpit or from beneath the aircraft by the pilot pulling a piece of string. In 1915, a French pilot reportedly dropped over 18,000 flechettes on German troops in one attack. Owing to their build-up of kinetic energy on the way down to the ground, they could easily punch through light armour, wood, or bodies without challenge or much resistance.
1992.1153 ā Skoda 15cm M14 gun belonging to Turkish forces near Amman in Jordan, 1918. Most likely attacked by flechettes due to the lack of obvious physical damage to the gun and limber.
wow tigers and kv1 at BR1 and 2 THATS A SCARRY THOUGHT
ā a br1 0r two a plane with these deadly darts could become the terror of infantry and thinly skinned targetsā
If these things can attack heavy tanks I might consider it
But this thingās anti-infantry capability is very poor.
different from reality
In reality, soldiers must move in large formations, so they are easily hit by this kind of thing.
Any player with any intelligence in the game would not choose to stay in a large and dense crowd.
Because this is telling the enemyās artillery and air units to come and attack here.
In addition, fools always cannot survive effectively, so it is difficult to gather
So this kind of weapon is not very effective in the game environment.
What we really need are air-dropped mines
as far as i know
This type of weapon is usually dropped after bombing cities and factories to slow down the enemyās logistical reconstruction.
Usually, air-dropped mines have a relatively small charge and can only blow up hands and feet without causing death.
This is great for disrupting the rear without being too overpowering
There are air burst flechette artillery & mortar shells which could be used, this would be actually quite cool like a shotgun from above with very wide spread, usually not very effective against tanks unless open top, during ww2 they werent looking like that in the photos they were very small metal shards very deadly and almost impossible to treat after being hit, but the soviets kinda topped it they used glass shards instead of metal now thats practically a death death sentence its also part of banned ordnance.
my thought was the only warning you get is hearing and seeing the plane, no bomb indicator
also with how lethal shirt stabby objects are in the game, as for going for cover you would be surprised how many people do not.
i meant it to be more stealth but also to hit things like at aa guns and mortars bac line soft target, a large or tight spread depending on how close at release,
, still it might be too hard as it is not just a modification of an existing system, still that is 95 percent of the suggestions here so thanks for posting
maybe flechette mortars artillery is already good enough as is mortars need love
no air dropped mines, they are bad enough being dropped by hand
The bomb was designed within a case of a 2.5 kg bomb, with a case weight of 1.5 kg and 0.62 kg of explosives. The Ilyushin Il-2 ground attack aircraft could carry 280 PTAB bombs directly on the bomb-bay folds, or 4x48 in four cassettes. The PTAB 2.5 could penetrate 60 to 70 millimeter tank armor, at the time sufficient for the top armor of even heavy tanks.
Introduced in 1943, PTABs were widely deployed from Il-2s,[1] and due to the bombās very low weight, from Yakovlev Yak-9 fighters, specifically from the internal weapon bay in the Yak-9B (fighter-bomber) modification. The Polikarpov Po-2 could also carry and deploy PTABs.
The number of PTABs dropped in a given time period steadily increased thereafter. By the end of 1943, Soviet records show that 1,171,340 PTABs were dropped. In 1944, the number rose to 5,024,822. In the first four months of 1945, a further 3,242,701 PTABs were used.[2]
Seems like a nasty weapon versus tanksā¦I wonder what they were dropping them on ???
Germany Total Loss estimates
Around 67,429 tank and self-propelled guns, 87,329 half-track trucks; 36,703 half-track tractors; 21,880 half-track armoured personnel carriers destroyed or captured.
226,300 Military cars and 97,470 Military motor-cycles destroyed or captured.
159,144 Anti-tank guns and Artillery destroyed or captured.
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