Flechette launchers

Flechette launchers are weapons in Star Wars that use canisters and missles as ammunition. These canisters and missles would, upon firing of the weapon, would release hundreds of razor sharp flechetter at high speeds in a wide spread.

Anti-personnel flechette canisters are able to eliminate entire squads, and anti-vehicle variants also existed. Because of the wide spread of flechette weapons, they proved to be effective at shooting down airspeeders and repulsor craft that would normally be able to evade enemy fire (citation needed).