Re: Depleted Uranium in artillery rounds

["Patrick D. Beyer" <pbeyer@post.its.mcw.edu>]

Yep you are correct, but those also are not artillery rounds.... My point 
is that when you ask some one in the military about DU artillary ropunds 
they will probably say there is no such animal......... 




On Tue, 29 Mar 1994, John DeLaHunt wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 15:50:45 -0600
> From: John DeLaHunt <jdelahunt@cc.colorado.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Depleted Uranium in artillery rounds
> 
> >Just to clear up the terminology to prevent any misunderstanding.....
> >
> >We are not refering to artillery rounds, but to 120 mm Tank rounds, known 
> >as SABOT. These rounds have a depleted uranium penetrator that looks like 
> >a small missle. I will see what literature i have on these......
> 
> My understanding was that the rounds of the GA/U-8A cannon
> on the A-10A Tunderbolt II (Warthog) were also DU.  It may
> be that tank-busting applications on the PanAvia Tornado
> also used DU rounds.  
> 
> Not that _where_ the rounds were fired from is the heart of
> the issue.
> 
> I just thought that there might be more DU lying around than
> just from 120mm tank rounds.
>                  
> Not that I wear a uniform.  I just read a lot of Aviation
> Week & Space Technology...
> 
> 
> John
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