Iraq - Desert Dispatch: The View Near Karbala (Depleted unranium depletes the enemy)

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ^ | 4/2/03 | Ron Synovitz

[bulldawg]

If you can imagine what a human being looks like melting when being hit by this ammunition, there wasn't much left of these people other than the charred remains of their skeletons.

I don't see why all these lefties are complaining about depleted uranium rounds. Seems like they perform pretty well. Let's save a magzine or two for Saddam and his sons, OK, soldiers?

[Frank_Discussion]

WTF are the people smoking!? Depleted Uranium doesn't really have this effect, does it? I thought it was just very dense and able to penetrate armor more easily.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: If you can imagine what a human being looks like melting when being hit by this ammunition, there wasn't much left of these people other than the charred remains of their skeletons."

What is this SOB smoking? Depleted unranium goes through a human body like crap through a goose. It does nothing else. If the Iraqi guys were charred, it wasn't from depleted unranium.

[BushMeister]

These sound like explosive rounds to me, not armor-piercing DU rounds.

[Gefreiter]

DU is used for its penetrating power, not to make skeletons out of grabastic, disorganized monkey men with RPGs.

That's just a neat side effect.

[Kenton]

WTF are the people smoking!? Depleted Uranium doesn't really have this effect, does it? I thought it was just very dense and able to penetrate armor more easily.

You are right. They are wrong.

[San Jacinto]

Gee, I hope those guys in the Nissan don't get cancer.

[Retrofire]

I was thinking the same thing...These sound like high-explosive rounds rather the DU.

HE is going to be even more effective against "techncial" vehicles and personnel.

That's not to say DU wouldn't turn a soldier into a fine red mist...

[Argus]

Maybe their suicide incendiary bomb packs blew up in their faces.

[Delta 21]

YEAH BABY!!!

30mm chain gun on a point blank moving target!!

FIRE and ADJUST! ! !

[Delta 21]

3 round mix....1st shot DU, second and third - Incindary rounds probably white phosphorus.

Good 'Ol Willy Pete!

[Delta 21]

That's just a neat side effect.

WORD on that!!!

[KansasCanadian]

Gee, I hope those guys in the Nissan don't get cancer.

For some sick reason, that amused me

[Frank_Discussion]

Too all y'all: Thanks - I thought I was loding what mind I have left this day!

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: Maybe their suicide incendiary bomb packs blew up in their faces.

Well, perhaps the depleted unranium rounds hit something metal nearby, sparked and ignited the crap scared out of the Iraqis.

[RAY]

You are right.

[RAY]

You are right.

[carl in alaska]

"Depleted Uranium doesn't really have this effect, does it?"

The Bradley fires a 25 mm high-explosive round, and only the tip of this round would be made from depleted uranium. The purpose of the uranium is just to penetrate armor. The damage from the round is caused by the C4 high-explosive inside the shell. Essentially the Bradley fires small sticks of C4 explosive at enemy vechicles, and while these rounds are not nearly as big as Abrams tank shells, the Bradley can fire them much more rapidly. I would guess that in this incident the gas tank of the enemy vehicle may have exploded and added to the damage.

[Moose4]

Thanks for the description. I cringe just thinking about what those rounds must do to a "technical". Then I uncringe when I realize that they're just doing their job, sending more Fedayeen to meet their 72 Helen Thomases.

Technology, gotta love it.

}:-)4

[trebb]

What is this SOB smoking? Depleted unranium goes through a human body like crap through a goose. It does nothing else. If the Iraqi guys were charred, it wasn't from depleted unranium

Actually, if it just goes through a person, you are right, but when it enters a tank, it generates so much heat as it passes through that it sends super-heated globules all through the interior and turns bodies on the inside to hamburger meat. A friend and co-worker was over during Gulf War I and he said that in some cases, the person's clothing was all that was holding him together after taking a depleted uranium round in a tank. Nasty stuff, but dead is dead and the victims probably don't have an opinion...