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DU is only a radiation problem if your tank get's penetrated, or if you lick the round. In the case of the former, you have bigger issues, and in the case of the latter, you deserve it.
Well, that and fragments entering the body through the air, water, or soil. Something that occurs in high frequency when you use the DU rounds as intended.
Amazing that people can watch a round disintegrate on impact and think "No possible environmental contamination here, conservation of mass is a myth, the grunts must just be licking the shells again'
Marines consider it a late night snack.
Only when they run out of crayons
It adds flavoring.
Who said the radiation was the problem?
Uranium is horrible chemically, too, is it not?
Newest long-rod penetrators actually have a industrial diamond tip over a tungsten carbide cap over the tungsten rod.
Does that make any sense? Wouldn't the diamonds on the tips just shatter on impact? Diamond is very hard but very brittle.
All of this is classified (what I know has been oopsie -daisied to the public), but the theory is that the diamond acts as a sacrificial abrasive layer, allowing the carbide to push deeper before it abrades.
This is also all stopgap and bullshittium, because the Army refuses to either upgrade the gun on the M1A2, or just develop a new tank.