[RadioAstronomer]

I am WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY out of my element here so I am asking a question from ignorance.

Could a hyper-velocity rail-gun initiated depleted uranium round cause this kind of damage?

[oh8eleven]

Could a hyper-velocity rail-gun initiated depleted uranium round cause this kind of damage?
Probably not, but Hillary's stare could.

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I am WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY out of my element here so I am asking a question from ignorance.

Me too

Could a hyper-velocity rail-gun initiated depleted uranium round cause this kind of damage?

My question is what would happen of the liner on a shaped charge was DU instead of copper? Would the charge forge the DU into a hyper-velocity round?

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[archy]

I am WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY out of my element here so I am asking a question from ignorance. Could a hyper-velocity rail-gun initiated depleted uranium round cause this kind of damage?

Never having played with one, I'm hesitant to say. But two generalities suggest against it: my bet is that after the crew finished licking their wounds and cleaned out their shorts, that unit's nuclear/chemical/biological monitoring officer and NCO were all over that vehicle with every Geiger counter, dosimeter, rad meter and other piece of monitoring gear to see if there was the slightest trace of radioactivity, as would be the case if a DU penetrator had hit, maybe from a improvised/modified A10 warthawg round or a *blue on blue* from another Abrams main gun round. And in which case, we'd have never heard about any of this.

Too, Russian HVAPFSDS rounds are more commonly fabricated from titanium rather than DU. But this would have been a dandy opportunity to test-drive a new prototype against a live target.

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