In a message dated 5/10/99 8:01:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< 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-

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