DPU munitions are standard on the A10 , and several other delivery systems. ---------- 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 ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################