So, if Depleted Uranium is used for it's density and hardness

>>34144307
Nato did this when they were bombing Yugoslavia for some reason.
Little did we know that cancer rates in populous surged because of it.

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>>34144312
>giving kebabs cancer

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its much more fissile and can be reprocessed into nuclear fuel instead of used in boolit, and also difficult to handle safely. there's pretty much no reason you'd use such a rare element in something mundane as a bullet when lead kills just as well

also if you're putting nuclear material inside a conventional bomb you're kind of defeating the purpose of a conventional explosive

>>34144325
Literally wrong.
I challenge you to name one reason why it was necessary for yugo states to be bombed,and why depleted uranium bombs were used.
I will wait.

protip*
you cant because they did it just because they can

>>34144325
They bombed the Serbs with them lol

>>34144346
Every country got at least few bombs dropped on them not only serbs.

>>34144351
Yeah, no shit the targets were Serb targets, we even bombed their shitty capital lol

>>34144344
because they can

>>34144344
because serbs are filthy turkniggers and bombing them was fun?

>>34144361
exactly.
So you would imagine other countries that are not in a state of decay would be very much against usage of weapons that pollute the environment for the next 50 years on their grounds.

>>34144344
>I challenge you to name one reason why it was necessary for yugo states
Because 20 years later Serbian nationalist butthurt harvested from Kyrgyzstani rockertery forums can be harnessed a powerful renewable energy source

>>34144370
Americans basically invented infinite energy source.

>>34144369
God don't be such a pussy Serbia, if you don't wanna be bombed why don't you do something about it faggot

>>34144307
its not used for hardness man its used for mass, you can dent uranium with your finger man

>>34144878

I think it also turns red hot after leaving the barrel.

>>34144344
Because they didn't want to embrace diversity.

>>34144307
Uranium used in nuclear weapons and fir nuclear fuel is enriched uranium, by the time it gets made into a projectile its radioactivity is mostly gone while retaining its density and maleability

so for the exact reasons you think plutonium would be a good choice, is what makes it a poor choice.

>toxicity

as you mentioned, plutonium is seriously toxic and would have to be cleaned up from what would end uo being a highly radioactive and toxic battlefield, where you end up wasting a shit ton of resources on treating and decontaminating men and materials, or just end up with exclusion zones like in the ukraine with a bankrupt VA system from treating all the various cancer and birth defect claims of your own troops and tons of otherwise perfectly good war material sitting around rusting because its too contaminated to use


tl;dr

you're a fucking idiot

>>34144344
To my knowledge DU isn't used in bombs. It's an inert material almost exclusively used in kinetic perpetrators. Bullets, not bombs.

>>34144307
du is hazardous waste pu is valuable

>>34146136
but nonfisible Plutonium is hardly radioactive, you can treat it like lead when handling it, assuming you don't got the explosive powder form.

>>34146798
>you can treat it like lead when handling it
More like mercury

>>34146798
Thats full retard: the post

>>34144312
>[citation needed]

Even the WHO put out a report on the health effects of DU munitions used in Iraq after the US invaded and found no increase risk of cancer and even a negligible uptick in heavy metal poisoning. You're full of shit.

>>34144326
It's called depleted because it's the waste product of enrichment cycles and has incredibly less U-235 in it than natural uranium, try again.

>>34144307
DU is actually extremely soft, and melts easily; thus making it utterly shit for use as either armor or munitions.
Tungsten is both better and less expensive.

But yeah, PU is such a dumb idea that you may as well apply to work at General Dynamics.
It powders like chalk; making it useless against anything but soft targets,
it isn't very poisonous but is very toxic; meaning that it kills no one but your advancing and occupying forces,
it isn't nuclear waste; it is a refined byproduct of controlled nuclear fission used to manufacture atomic weaponry that is expensive, hard to get, and the absolute last thing you want to shoot at your enemies unless you've fitted it with a nuclear detonator.

I'm sure the Army procurement commitee would order that every soldier in the field be equipped with exploding plutonium RIP rounds(tm) the moment they heard the suggestion, though.

this god damn post gives me cancer.

so much shit wrong with it that I don't even know how to respond.

1) from a production point of view, DU is a by product of uranium enrichment process, uranium from earth is natural. Take a good guess on where you'd get plutonium, or if it is even naturally occurring. This along should answer your question.

2) from a manufacturing point of view, assuming you got the material, uranium is much easier to work with, and can be done outside of glovebox setting, where as any work with plutonium is done mostly in a glovebox setting due to radiation concerns.

3) the material property, density, brittleness, strength, etc. is determined by how it is alloyed, similar to different variations of stainless steel.

4) I give .. this post is retarded.

>>34144307
>spontaneous fission
>price. because no, it's not waste.
>cancer-47s for everyone (including You)

>>34144344
>depleted uranium bombs
Yeah, you see that's like just your opinion, man.
Please provide proofs.

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>>34144325
Racist

>>34149608

Pretty much, the number of birth defects from DU poisoning in kebabland are tiny compared to the ones because they're marrying their cousins.

>>34144344
because filthy serb niggers fucked yugoslavia and caused it to collapse from the inside out. then they decided that the best way to remedy the situation was to shoot fellow Serbs and Croats then lay siege on a capital city for no real strategic benefit? And then once they started to get pushed back by kebabs armed with homemade slam fire pipe guns and NATO air power, played victim and gave up? AND then decided because everybody in the region should be as miserable as the common serb?

>>34149608
>Relatives of Italian soldiers believe 50 of them have died since the war due to their exposure to depleted uranium weapons.[117] UNEP tests found no evidence of harm by depleted uranium weapons, even among cleanup workers,[118] but those tests and UNEP’s report were questioned in an article in Le Monde diplomatique.[119]

Literally delete this.

>>34144344
>depleted uranium bombs
In form of barrels, I suppose?

>>34144307
>>34144312
Inhaling DU powder is the one potentially dangerous thing about it. Powdered DU bombs would be a bad idea for long-term effects, and any DU using in small arms rounds needs to be properly covered to avoid creating powder.

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>>34144307
>JHP made of plutonium
Truly, that's about the only way imaginable to make JHP actually more effective than FMJ.