Pentagon May Scrap 35 million depleted uranium rds used by A-10 Warthog

[Stampede]

These 30mm cannons are amazing weapons, but those depleted uranium rounds are rather nasty... Some old rounds are from the 1970s too!

Pentagon May Scrap 35 Million Depleted Uranium Rounds Used By The A-10 Warthog

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...-uranium-rounds-used-by-the-a-10-warthogs-gun

The U.S. military is looking into what it would take to dismantle and dispose of more than 35,000,000 rounds of ammunition with depleted uranium cores, predominantly 30mm shells for the iconic GAU-8/A Avenger cannon on the A-10 Warthog ground-attack aircraft. This comes more than a year after the U.S. Air Force revealed it was looking into the possibility of stopping using these controversial rounds for good.

 

[Control for Smilers]

wow. i had not read that DU ammo might be the cause of GWS. thanks for the info.

 

[Granite3]

Hmm, we regularly shot 60's era ammo in our M109-A5 and 6 es..............

 

[Macvan]

A waste of good ammo ...if you wait long enough a war will come around and someone will need them....

 

[spencer60]

So we care now that there's slightly higher rates of cancer in the countries we went to war with?

If that's what's so important, don't make us go to war with you.

About the only concern I could see here would be in training, and the armed forces are already getting crap about lead contamination on their ranges, so I'm guessing Uranium would be a problem.

 

[Buckeye76]

Don't destroy them. Use them up. Send the to our boys to use now.

 

[Control for Smilers]

how long would it take to use up all that DU 30mm stuff?

 

[THREEJAYS]

Looks like some politicians have stock in the ammo companies

 

[aFarewellToKings]

how long would it take to use up all that DU 30mm stuff?

35M rounds, 3600 rpm, 6.75 days, assuming 1 gun, and it didn't melt down.

 

[Control for Smilers]

thats a LOT of dead tanks...but what about the tank churrins?