> 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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