BTW, you'll laugh at this. ChatGPT was careful to include this warning:
It's worth noting that the use of uranium in military applications has raised concerns about its potential health and environmental impacts, particularly in areas where depleted uranium rounds have been used in combat.
It's not even necessary for the uranium to be depleted, since that does not affect its physical and chemical properties. The use of some suitable warhead is implied by the Russian statements of having done it before. It is commonplace for such a weapon to have a terminal dive. That is what is done with our JDAM bombs, which don't even have propulsion. (The idea is to null out any lateral error resulting from elevation error magnified by a glide slope.) Whatever velocity may be lost in a turning maneuver would be repaid by gravity.
And it may not be uranium, but tungsten, with a delayed fuze explosive / thermobaric charge. Not a good idea to get caught up in particulars, when we know so little. Like not even the true depth of the penetration, or what the overburden was.
BTW, you'll laugh at this. ChatGPT was careful to include this warning:
So, THAT'S what killed the dudes in that tank!
It's not even necessary for the uranium to be depleted, since that does not affect its physical and chemical properties. The use of some suitable warhead is implied by the Russian statements of having done it before. It is commonplace for such a weapon to have a terminal dive. That is what is done with our JDAM bombs, which don't even have propulsion. (The idea is to null out any lateral error resulting from elevation error magnified by a glide slope.) Whatever velocity may be lost in a turning maneuver would be repaid by gravity.
And it may not be uranium, but tungsten, with a delayed fuze explosive / thermobaric charge. Not a good idea to get caught up in particulars, when we know so little. Like not even the true depth of the penetration, or what the overburden was.