FWG-5 Flechette Smart Pistol

The FWG-5 Flechette Smart Pistol was a handheld flechette pistol manufactured by Malaxan Firepower Incorporated. A featherweight version which was crafted using ultra-lightweight materials to provide the user with greater accuracy and mobility was also in use.

The FWG-5 was smaller and easier to handle than the Golan Arms FC-1 flechette launcher, and had the stopping power of a heavy blaster pistol. It was loaded with flechette-filled pellets instead of heavy canisters, and featured a miniature laser tracking system that tagged targets with an electronic homing signature. This enabled the weapon's pellets to track and follow the target's movements, and make a course correction while in flight. Upon reaching a range of three meters from the target, the pellet would explode, releasing twelve millimeter long micro flechettes in a shotgun style method of attack. This hail of flechettes would be propelled forward by the pellets momentum, spreading out to the radius of a meter or so to puncture and strike a target, often with enough force to pierce blast vests and stormtrooper armor.

Designed to be lightweight and aerodynamic, the flechettes used micro-repulsors to propel the pellets up to fifty meters away. Alternatively, the weapon was capable of an alternative fire mode that fired blasts of "heat based energy", many pistoleers preferred this setting over the messy results of the pellets.

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