Hi Eric.

Do we know that they are NOT using it already?
One of my colleagues had the had the most unworthy comment that it
would save the producers (based guesswhere?) having to dispose
of it themselves at home. Shame on him!!
Also he was low enough to imply that we were in a win-win situation.
Apparently, the more ordnance we drop on Serbia, the bigger the
business for the arms suppliers & after the demolition derby is
finished, who'll be first in line to rebuilt the infrastructure?
Beneath contempt!!
See what kinda minds some of us have to work with?

Anyway, I'm more concerned with getting back to thinking about
soldering BGAs & lead-free & such like.

Have a fine, peaceful day . . . Norm.
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Eric Christison <[log in to unmask]>  To: [log in to unmask]

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
>
> << 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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