Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine

Reuters ^ | September 1, 2023 | Mike Stone

[JonPreston]

He (Putin) should have stayed on his side of the boarder.

If only you Neocon swine felt the same way about out Southern border.

[OKSooner]

How will those old Soviet tanks be any deader after being shot with one of these DP rounds than if they were hit with a “regular” sabot or HEAT round?

[OKSooner]

DU, not DP.

[jacknhoo]

Cluster bombs and depleted uranium: A desperate and futile last breath

Shabbir RizviShabbir Rizvi
19 Jul 2023

Excerpt:
“The US supplying cluster bombs and depleted uranium to Ukraine - and Ukraine using them - is an admission that the territories have now been permanently lost to Russia.“

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/cluster-bombs-and-depleted-uranium:-a-desperate-and-futile-l

[OKSooner]

Why are those soldiers loading that round at the front of the tank?

The magazine is at the back of the turret.

[Bookshelf]

Your analysis makes sense. So why depleted uranium shells? In warfare this ups the ante considerably.

[Farmerbob]

I’m all for cluster munitions and DU on the southern boarder. I’m equally against all invaders. You on the other hand seem to favor those directed from Moscow.

[JonPreston]

I’m all for cluster munitions and DU on the southern boarder. I’m equally against all invaders. You on the other hand seem to favor those directed from Moscow.

One is in our national interest and the other isn't.

[Joe 6-pack]

Those rounds are pretty heavy and the turret is pretty high. Uploading 40 rounds can be a good workout. When I was a tank platoon leader we'd do a daisy chain. One crewman would carry a round from the ammo truck to the front of the hull and hand it up to a crewman on the front slope, who would in turn, hand it to a crewman on top of the turret, who would pass it to the loader who would stock his ammo rack inside the turret.

That way they loader knew where which rounds (HEAT, sabot, etc.) were located in the rack and could respond more quickly when fire commands were given.

[AndyJackson]

One is our boarder. The other isn’t.

[JonPreston]

100%

[Farmerbob]

I disagree. We spent 4+ decades and who knows how much money fighting the cold war. I do not want an aggressive, militant Russian empire reconstituted to menace the world again. Build the Wall, Arm Ukraine!

[buwaya]

No deader. But I figure Abrams straight from the US will be supplied with standard US AP ammo, which is DU. Probably simplifies logistics.

[OKSooner]

OK, thanks.

[buwaya]

All you need is for the border patrol to be told to do their old jobs again. Trump controlled the border without implementing some stupid bloodthirsty fantasy.

[EEGator]

Why do they need tons of tanks and APCs when they are proving to be ineffective?

Drones and technology seem to be the current direction.
Infiltration and sabotage will always work.

[EEGator]

To my knowledge, only Russia and the US have smallpox virus in biolabs.

[pepsionice]

I would imagine the the anti-tank missle inventory is maxed out to loan more.

[EEGator]

It’s a border, not a boarder. Go milk the cows Cletus.

[Agatsu77]

So imabadboy99, I see that you know NOTHING about depleted uranium. So STFU until you manage to learn something.