Beehive was a Vietnam War era anti-personnel round packed with metal flechettes fired from an artillery gun most popularly deployed during that conflict. It is also known as flechette rounds or their official designation, antipersonnel-tracer (APERS-T).

M546 APERS-T rounds are intended primarily for antipersonnel use at close range. The round comes fuzed and set for muzzle action; however, it can be set for up to 100 seconds. The round is loaded with 8,000 8-grain steel flechettes. The APERS-T round is devastatingly effective against exposed infantry.

Beehive was a Vietnam war era anti-personnel round packed with metal flechettes fired from an artillery gun most popularly deployed during that conflict. The first round actually termed "beehive" (for the 'buzzing' sound its darts made when flying through the air) was the M546 anti-personnel tracer (APERS-T), first fired in combat in 1966 [ 1 ...

The M546 was direct fired from a near horizontally leveled 105 mm howitzer and ejected 8000 flechettes during flight by a mechanical time fuze. Beehive rounds were also created for recoilless anti-tank weapons: the 90 mm and 106 mm along with the Ontoses APERS-T rounds were available for 90mm gun on M48 tanks and the 152mm gun on the M551 ...

This cartridge is designed for use against personnel in direct fire, muzzle action, and in a direct fire mission with a time setting other than muzzle action. The projectile body is an assembly of four pieces: base with sintered iron rotating band and …

The MT Fuze M563 series is assembled into the fuze adapter. The cartridge case contains a percussion primer assembly and two individually bagged propelling charge increments, one numbered Zone 6 and the second, Zone 7. The base of the cartridge case is drilled and the primer assembly is pressed into the base.

2024年12月3日 · Beehive was a Vietnam war era antipersonnel round packed with metal flechettes fired from an artillery gun most popularly deployed during that conflict and known as flechette rounds as well as by their official designation, antipersonneltracer (APERST). Beehive is named for the 'buzzing' sound

The primary beehive round for this purpose was the M546 anti-personnel tracer (APERS-T) shell which projected 8000 flechettes and was direct fired from a near horizontally leveled 105 mm howitzer. [2] Beehive rounds were also created for recoilless anti-tank weapons including 90 mm, 106 mm, Ontoses [3] and M48 tanks.

This is a percussion-primed, semi-fixed, howitzer-fired cartridge with a flechette Anti-Personnel-with-Tracer (APERS-T) projectile. The cartridge is designed for close or long-range combat …

The 130 mm towed field gun M-46 (Russian: 130-мм пушка M-46) is a manually loaded, towed 130 mm artillery piece, manufactured in the Soviet Union in the 1950s. It was first observed by the West in 1954.