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To: maceng2 who wrote (37572)	11/15/2000 9:29:05 AM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Yup, that is also one of the problems with DU that has everyone so upset from a contamination standpoint. A sizable portion of the penatrator melts and vaporizes, scattering tiny DU all over the battlefield. If you ingest or inhale the stuff and get it stuck in your body that ain't so good. While the radiation isn't good by any means, it is really the heavy metal properties (just like mercury) that are a real bitch. I don't think I would want to live around southern Iraq when a sand storm kicked up.

To: maceng2 who wrote (37572)	11/15/2000 10:01:35 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

--Really?, didn't realise. I'm going to check that out..I do know a 30-oh-6 lead FMJ (copper) punches a neat hole in 1/8 inch of steel plate no problem at all. -- "you bet your ass, baby" (ted nugent) i can imagine a u.s. rifle platoon in n-western europe, 1944: everyone firing off 30-06... would probably 'chop down' a brick building. that was corny in saving private ryan when they shot the 'nicht schiezen' germans while there were americans running laterally behind the said germans... andy