UK to Send Nuclear Weapon to Zelenskyy Regime (Bad News If True)
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anonleo has a point. A nuclear weapon, as we know them, is a weapon of mass destruction that can level cities and kill hundreds of thousands.
Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons are battlefield tools that can take out a tank or a bunker. DU is peacetime nuclear reactor fuel rods that have (mostly) spent their fuel in the nuclear power process. They are still dangerous and have to be handled with great care, using shielding and are hazardous, but they just cannot make electric power anymore. These rods used to be shipped off to a place in New Mexico or Nevada, I can't recall which, where they were to be stored forever in a controlled and guarded environment.
Then someone came up with the idea that they could still be used as small weapons, even in their depleted state. The rods were milled and shaped (again, under great caution and everyone involved wearing protective gear and respirators) into "billets" that were then shaped into artillery rounds.
The chief characteristic of DU rounds is something called "pyrophoric"... if it hits something at high velocity -- say another tank or fuel truck -- the DU instantly becomes a fiery, burning projectile...it can cut through steel like a hot knife through butter, but in less than a second, and it causes everything in the tank, from fuel to ammunition, to start burning like a Roman Candle.
If you recall the first Iraqi War and remember seeing Iraqi tanks burning like sparklers on the Fourth of July, they had been hit by DU rounds from an American or British tank. The result of all that explosive energy was to spread DU in a wide circumference around the Iraqi tank, and those spots are still contaminated to this day.
I used to work in the nuclear cleanup and remediation field, and DU is not something you want to handle carelessly, but it's not a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that a nuclear bomb is.
Thanks for the clear explanation fren.
My Uncle (R.I.P.) also worked in remediation, and worked on lovely pieces of ground such as the Valley of the Drums in Kentucky. He fought recurring cancer six times before he just didn't have any fight anymore, as somewhere along the line, he was exposed to some toxic cocktail. A man's man, for sure...
The pyrophoric qualities lend themselves well to igniting ammo racks, but this quality is secondary to DU's density and fractal patterns. When it strikes a hard surface, it doesn't just ignite, it fractures in such a way that the tip of the penetrator remains sharp. Remember, its flammability doesn't matter much if the fires it starts are outside of the target's armor; it's when fire gets inside the tank that things get spicy.
True!
Thanks for the explanation. I understand what you are saying now. It's bad, but not completely destructive unless you gave this guy in charge of cleaning up the site.
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Correct. I guess it's a matter of degree. No one survives in a tank (or a bunker) that has been hit by a DU round... they are vaporized and turned into ash along with everything else in the tank. But the contamination is limited to the area immediately around the tank, a few dozen yards in all directions, but also it's caught in the wind and blown whatever direction the wind is blowing. But the contamination drops off as it disperses in an exponential rate, the further one is away from the destroyed tank (or bunker).
Here's a short video showing a DU round hitting various objects. In this case the DU round itself is contained inside a casing, and they also use tungsten darts to make the round even more lethal. Sort of a "gain of function" step. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U61Hrn1JZWQ&t=4s
Thanks.