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Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. They can be distinguished from javelins by fletching (i.e., feathers on the tail) and a shaft that is shorter and/or more flexible, and from arrows by the fact that they are not of the right length to use with a normal bow. The bayonet, still used in war as both knife and spearpoint. ...
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Fletching is the ancient art of creating arrows from materials such as wood and feathers. ...
Japanese arrow (ya) and head // Weapon An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow. ...
The term has been used to describe an extremely wide variety of projectiles, from heavy spear-like ammunition for siege engines or atlatls to tiny poisoned needles for use in blowguns. A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare. ...
The atlatl (pronounced ät-lät-Ål), or spear thrower, is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in spear-throwing, and includes a bearing surface which allows the user to temporarily store elastic energy during the throw. ...
A blowgun or blowpipe is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts. ...
Prehistory
Some of the earliest evidence of advanced tool use includes remnants of an early type of dart, which can be considered the ancestor of arrows as well as bows (see Operation). Reconstructions of this system have a range of over one hundred yards (meters) and can penetrate several inches of oak. This technology was used worldwide from the Upper Palaeolithic (late Solutrean, ca. 18,000-16,000 BC) until the development of archery made it obsolete (see Replacement). Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. ...
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These arrows score as an inner 10, and a 9 Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. ...
Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. ...
Construction The darts in question are much larger than arrows, but noticeably lighter than javelins. They have a weighted point, often of stone and on a removable foreshaft. This is held by friction onto a thin, flexible main shaft several feet in length, with fletching and a (usually socket-like) nock at the opposite end. Since they are unlike anything in Western history, the term "dart" has been adopted after some debate. Some alternate terms for this missile have included the spear, but this term have fallen out of favor since in all other uses, spears are stiff enough to be used for stabbing. In its function, an atlatl dart is more like a combination between a bow and an arrow. Flint tools were made by stone age peoples worldwide. ...
Hunting spear and knife, from Mesa Verde National Park. ...
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Japanese arrow (ya) and head // Weapon An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow. ...
Operation Its similarity to a bow may not be immediately obvious, but in fact both serve to accumulate energy by elasticity in a fundamentally similar way. As throwing begins, a dart of this type is designed to flex in compression between the accelerating force at its nock and the inertia of its weighted point, storing energy. Late in this throw, as the point moves faster and so offers less resistance, the dart releases most of this energy by springing away from the thrower. Some energy may also be recovered by the fletching as the projectile "fishtails" through the air. However this energy is far less than is commonly stated and only effectively increases accuracy by counter-acting the downward force on the tail. Elasticity has meanings in two different fields: In physics and mechanical engineering, the theory of elasticity describes how a solid object moves and deforms in response to external stress. ...
The principle of inertia is one of the fundamental laws of classical physics which are used to describe the motion of matter and how it is affected by applied forces. ...
Atlatl To maximize elastic energy storage and recovery, such darts should be held only by the nock and allowed to pivot freely as they are thrown. This requires a special tool that is often called a "spear thrower". Western culture has been able to borrow a name for this tool from the Mexica, who used it against the invading Spanish, and who called it the atlatl. The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central México in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. ...
The atlatl (pronounced ät-lät-Ål), or spear thrower, is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in spear-throwing, and includes a bearing surface which allows the user to temporarily store elastic energy during the throw. ...
Much is made of the leverage gained by using an atlatl, but in fact more leverage can be applied (to less effect, according to reconstructions) using a sling to launch a kestrosphendone (see below). Home-made sling. ...
Replacement by the arrow The absence of the atlatl in recorded Western history can easily be explained by the presence of the bow and arrow. Archery may be easier to learn and have a faster rate of fire, yet perhaps this system's greatest advantage over the atlatl is that ammunition is easier to make and transport.
This can be explained in terms of the amount of elastic energy to be stored in the launching platform and in the projectile itself. Since the dart must store almost all of the system's elastic energy, more care, planning, and weight of elastic material must be invested in its construction. For example, stone dart points from the same set tend to vary in mass by no more than a few percent, and computer simulations show that this is necessary for efficient operation. Similar constraints exist for the length, diameter, and materials quality of the shaft. If the same amount of attention and material are instead invested into a bow, projectiles can be made lighter (by a factor of five or more) and to less exacting tolerances. Tolerance in Final Fantasy is an allowance, given as a permissible range, in the nominal dimension or value specification of a manufactured object. ...
Greater mass becomes an advantage when penetration is an overwhelming concern, as when attacking an armored conquistador or when hunting whales. This class of dart was not replaced in the equipment of aboriginal arctic hunters such as the Aleut until fairly recently. Conquistador (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who achieved the Conquista (this Spanish term is generally accepted by historians), i. ...
Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic placental mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. ...
The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole. ...
The Aleuts (self-denomination: Unangax, Unangan or Unanga) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, U.S.A. and Chukotka, Russia. ...
Reconstructions Darts and atlatls have been constructed by modern enthusiasts, either with ancient materials and methods or with high technology borrowed from modern archery. While some do this in the context of anthropology or mechanical engineering, many view the practice as a sport, and throw competitively for distance and/or for accuracy. Throws of almost 260 m (850 ft.) have been recorded [1]. Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθÏωπος, human or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...
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Other traditional darts The darts in use by the developers of the English language (see Thrown darts, below) were used throughout Europe for much of its military history, though they were never a dominant weapons technology. They have also lent their name to quite a few weapons from other cultures.
Thrown darts It is quite reasonable to speculate that the darts used with atlatls were adapted from hand-thrown darts, which in turn were derived from light javelins. In Europe, short but heavy-pointed darts were sometimes used in warfare. These had a length of about one or two feet (30-60 cm), and resembled an arrow with a long head and short shaft.
The Roman model was weighted with lead, and called the plumbata. For an image of a plumbata (without its wooden shaft, which did not survive the passage of time) and other projectiles see [2] In some legions, five of these were carried inside each soldier's shield; reconstructions show a range of 80 yards (About 72 meters) or more when thrown overhand in the fashion of a potato masher grenade. Plumbatae or Mattiobarbuli were lead-weighted darts carried by ancient Roman infantry. ...
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Kestrosphendone This was a sling-launched dart, invented in 168 BC for the third Macedonian war, probably similar to hand-thrown darts of the period. Casting one (according to surviving records) requires a specially designed sling with two unequal loops, though it is not entirely clear whether this is a stave-sling or more closely resembles a shepherd's sling. Home-made sling. ...
The Third Macedonian War (171 BC - 168 BC) was a war fought between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon. ...
Siege engines Some of the many Chinese and Greek siege engines and their descendents can be classified as "dart launchers". These include the ballista and the scorpion. A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare. ...
The ballista (Latin, from Greek ballistēs, from ballein to throw, plural ballistae) was a powerful ancient weapon, similar to a giant crossbow, which ejected heavy darts or spherical stone projectiles of various sizes. ...
Blow darts The blowgun can be used to fire darts, as well. Often, these are quite small, and do little harm by themselves: instead, they are effective due to poison spread onto their points, from i.e. dart frogs or curare. A blowgun or blowpipe is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts. ...
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Genera Many, about 150+ species within 9 genera Poison Dart Frogs is the common name given to the group of frogs belonging to the family Dendrobatidae. ...
Strychnos toxifera by Koehler 1887 Curare is a substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine. ...
This is a pointed weight attached at its blunt end to a length of rope or chain, which can be used to throw and retrieve it. It meets the definition above because it flies freely when no tension is applied to the rope, has a point and — in the form of a square of cloth — even has fletching. Shengbiao is a discipline of Wushu devoted to its use. The rope dart is basically a (very) long rope with a metal dart tied to one end. ...
Wushu may refer to: Chinese martial arts, or fighting systems from China. ...
Swiss arrow A Swiss arrow (also known as a Yorkshire arrow) is dart thrown using a cord to make the dart go further with the same power. The tail end of a Swiss arrow. ...
Modern darts Of the darts still in widespread use, perhaps the closest to traditional thrown darts are lawn darts. These are large and heavy enough to be thrown by swinging, and to seriously wound a person when thrown. Safety warning A set of lawn darts usually includes four large darts and two targets. ...
An indoor game of darts has also been developed, steel-tip darts generally weigh 18 - 26 grams and maximum of 50 grams is allowed in Amateur or Professional competitions such as the World Series of Darts. The common length of a dart is generally six to eight inches long, but rules allow for up to a foot in length. They are occasionally used as weapons in bars and at European football games, but they are only designed to penetrate dart boards made of bundled fibers (usually sisal). Standardized dart board For the British doo-wop group of the 1970s and 1980s, see Darts (band). ...
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Binomial name Agave sisalana Perrine Sisal or sisal hemp is an agave Agave sisalana that yields a stiff fiber used in making rope. ...
Tranquilizer darts are related to the darts for blowguns, but include a hypodermic needle and a hollow reservoir resembling a syringe, which is generally filled with sedatives or other drugs. These are launched from a special gun using compressed gas, a tuft of fibers at the back of the missile serving as both fletching and wadding. They are a popular device in comic movies. Different bevels on hypodermic needles Syringe on left, hypodermic needle with attached color-coded luer lock on right. ...
A syringe consists of a plunger fitted to a tube, called the barrel, which has a small opening on one end. ...
A sedative is a drug that depresses the central nervous system (CNS), which causes calmness, relaxation, reduction of anxiety, sleepiness, slowed breathing, slurred speech, staggering gait, poor judgment, and slow, uncertain reflexes. ...
Fletching is the ancient art of creating arrows from materials such as wood and feathers. ...
Wadding is used in guns to seal gas behind a projectile. ...
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A type of dart still finds use in military engagements, in the form of flechettes. These are all-metal projectiles, often resembling nails that have had fletching (rather than nail heads) forged into them. They were used by American forces during the wars in Korea and Vietnam, but treaties have since been enacted to limit their use. Antipersonnel artillery shells filled with them have been used as recently as 2004 by Israeli forces. The word flechette is French and means dart (literally, little arrow). It is a projectile having the form of a small metal dart, usually steel, with a sharp-pointed tip and a tail with several vanes to stabilize it during flight. ...
Combatants Western Allied/UN combatants: South Korea, United States Communist combatants: North Korea, Peoples Republic of China, Soviet Union Strength Note: All figures may vary according to source. ...
Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ...
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Large flechettes are used as kinetic energy penetrators in many gun-fired anti-armour projectiles. French anti-tank round with its sabot APFSDS at point of separation of sabot. ...
In religion Darts play an important role in ancient symbolism and mythology: - In the book of Ephesians, the "armor of God" passage (6:10-18) compares faith to a shield which can "quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one".
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