Alex
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the USA also uses Depleted Uranium in their tanks' ARMOUR (later models certianly, not sure if used in Gulf War 1?)
to put it midly, it's insanely stupid to do such a thing!!
Yay, living in a vehicle encased in one of the world's most toxic metals, radioactive and what happens ot it? it gets blown up...
even if not penetrated fully, damage, especially by the massive but crude bombs insurgents use (like half a dozen 155mm shells going off or the like), or the newer and incredibly powerful roadside "penetration" bombs the Iranans developed and trained hezbollah, Iraqi's etc in
well, you're gonna have DU everywhere.
IVI
DU is an incredibly dangerous form of radioactive material, because it is an ALPHA emitter that is highly likely to be end up in DNA
because, iirc, it's chemical makeup being misread by the body as another element, and thus, ends up in DNA/protein more than it should..and while it's radioactivity is low, when actually part of/attached to DNA chains, well, it's like having a shotgun in there. For decency's sake, I'm not gonna post the pics of the deformed Iraqi children but hey..there's plenty of them
and it is toxic, highly reactive (so forms salts etc), it is pyrophoric (it burns fiercely when in fine form or heated ie when it is cut or strikes an object)
the combination of all is to be extremely toxic in effect, in the "real world".
Do you really think those bastards would tell us the truth, hm? their early sutdies are obviously LIES or hugely manipulated. US Navy ended up refusing to use the damn stuff
USA and Russia have around 500,000 tons EACH of Depleted Uranium, left over from the insane nuclear "gonad contest" we call "The Cold War", so they are desperate to get rid of it, so, they drop it all over "foreigners" they don't care about!
What makes it even worse is the lunatics store most of it in the form of Uranium hexaflouride, probably the most horrendous substance ever created....ye gods!