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DPU munitions are standard on the A10 , and several other delivery
systems.
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From: Eric Christison
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] : "Lead Free","Great Gas out etc.......
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 11:54AM
> In a message dated 5/10/99 8:01:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << Did you all hear that the Armed Forces is testing "Green Bullets",
> bullets
> made without lead! They kill just as good but won't contaminate our
> future
> advisaries, land, that way they can farm in the future, without
getting
> lead
> poisoning. >>
>
> The Navy has been using "Lead-Free" ammunition for a while. The
Phalanx
> C.I.W.S. (Close-In Weapon System), a radar guided system used for ship
> defense, fires 20mm depleted uranium bullets at the rate of 4,500
rounds
> per
> minute...supposedly can stop an incoming 5-inch shell from hitting a
> ship...it's not Lead, but I don't know if depleted uranium is all that
> "green" either...hehehe
>
> -Steve "ex-swabbie" Gregory-
>
And not just the US Navy. I've read that there's been a report leaked
onto the
web that several hundred tons of spent DU rounds are lying around the
Kuwait/Iraq desert after the West's previous visit.
Given the potential health risks of contaminating the water table,
ingesting
contaminated dust etc. one wonders whether Nato would/will be so ready
to use
it in Kosovo..
Anyway - back to work.
Eric Christison
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