17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Mike Duvos writes:
The idea is that the uranium penetrates the armor and the charge then explodes once the round is inside.
I don't know much about modern munitions, but I do know that armor piercing rounds may have no charge in them at all.
None of the forms of modern shells described in this book involve the use of depleted uranium in shell casings.
The U after is goes through the armor is pyrophoric, and there is quite a fireball as a result - lots of hot burning particles flying around. quite spectacular from the downstream side (I've seen it - the back side of a target plate) L