Are Depleted Urainium bullets still in use today?

Question

If so, by who?

Answer 1

Yes, the US and UK use DU munitions..

Depleted uranium is a waste by-product of nuclear weapons and domestic nuclear power. It is used in weapons because it is cheap, ignites easily and burns fiercely on hitting a solid target. When it impacts, it releases an aerosol of fine uranium oxide that is breathable and spreads great distances by wind until weighted down by rain, where it falls to the ground and is absorbed into soil or water sources.

Why don't other countries use it? Because the use of radioactive munitions (regardless of potency) breaches Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Charter, the Genocide Convention, the Convention against Torture, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, and the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980.

But it's depleted, so it's harmless, right? Veterans of the conflicts in the Gulf, Bosnia and Kosovo (all of which were fought with DU munitions) have been found to have up to 14 times the usual level of chromosome abnormalities in their genes. That has raised fears they will pass cancers and genetic illnesses to their offspring.

In 1995, Iraqi health officials reported alarmingly high increases in rare and unknown diseases, primarily in children, and presented a study of this state of affairs to the United Nations. The increases occurred in leukemia, carcinoma, cancers of the lung and digestive system, late-term miscarriages, congenital diseases, and deformities in fetuses, such as anencephaly (absence of a brain), and fused fingers and toes.

Answer 2

The A-10 Warthog and AH-64 Apache, while having different guns (the warthog uses a 6-barrel vulcan called The Avenger, the Apache uses a single barrel chain gun), they use the same 30mm round of uranium and tungsten (roughly the size of a coke bottle with the complete round and casing). In addition, the Close In Weapons System (CWIS, nicknamed R2-D2 for the shape of its radar casing) fires a 20mm depleted uranium round for close in aircraft and missle defense aboard ship.

The M1A2 Abrams, as well as the British Challenger, and possible the German Leopard main battle tanks use a high velocity sabot round. The projectile has an aluminum case that falls away once it leaves the barrel, leaving a hypervelocity 40mm dart made of tungsten and uranium that punches through any armor in the world on sheer velocity alone.

Answer 3

I know that the A-10 Warthog uses depleted uranium rounds in it's 30mm gatling cannon, besides that I'm not sure if any other US armorment uses them.

Answer 4

They are used by anybody who is serious about tank warfare.

(Generally the people who use the stuff are the ones who listened to the actual scientific evidence about the stuffs hazards and ignore the hype.)

It is amusing to notice that opposition to the use of this ammunition is based primarily on scientific ignorance.

Answer 5

Yes they are still in use. The United States military uses them.

Answer 6

no theyare not in use but the us has made extencive use of depleted uranium tank shells for their abrams

Answer 7

yes, by the USAF and are used in the A-10 thunderbolt (in my opinion the best aircraft in the world)

Answer 8

wow, i thought they were part of the reason hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children were dying horrible deaths and why the "Oil for Food" program was soooo needed.

guess they're still being used for "straw man" arguments...

Answer 9

The US among others use DU weapons.

Answer 10

The US does they are the only thing that will penetrate armor