FWG-5 Flechette Smart Pistol

The FWG-5 Flechette Smart Pistol, a flechette pistol designed for one-handed use, was produced by Malaxan Firepower Incorporated. There was also a lighter variant available, constructed with exceptionally light materials, which allowed for improved precision and agility for the user.

An FWG-5 In comparison to the FC-1 flechette launcher from Golan Arms, the FWG-5 was more compact and easier to wield, yet it possessed the equivalent stopping power of a heavy blaster pistol. Rather than using bulky canisters, it was loaded with flechette-filled pellets and incorporated a small laser-guided system that marked targets with an electronic signature for tracking. This system allowed the weapon's projectiles to monitor and pursue the target's movements, adjusting their trajectory mid-flight. Once a pellet reached within three meters of its target, it would detonate, releasing twelve-millimeter long micro-flechettes in a manner similar to a shotgun blast. The pellet's forward momentum propelled this barrage of flechettes, spreading them out to approximately a meter in radius, enabling them to penetrate and impact the target, frequently with sufficient force to breach blast vests as well as stormtrooper armor.

The flechettes were designed to be light and streamlined, and they utilized micro-repulsors to propel the pellets as far as fifty meters. The weapon also had an alternative firing mode that discharged bursts of "heat based energy"; many users favored this mode over the messy outcome produced by the pellets.