The poison-laced missiles warhead was secured by the SBU, State Emergency Service units, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the village of Kamak and transported to a radioactive waste storage faci…
  • ItWasTheDNS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 个月前

    Didn’t the A-10 famously have depleted uranium tipped rounds to help with armor penetration? I mean fuck Russia, but this doesn’t really seem remarkable.

    • sudoshakes@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      3 个月前

      Yeah. The article is clickbait.

      Most armor penetrating munitions use depleted uranium for its ability to self sharpen as it plows through metal armor and because it is flammable on impact. We refer to these as, “behind the target effects”.

      The splintering and incendiary effects inside vehicles and as additional anti-material destruction on soft targets are why it’s used.

      It makes for a poor radiation dirty bomb, and is only a mild radiation risk.