This thread needs a dose of reality, lol.
DU rounds are explicitly used for their greater penetrative profile. If we wanted to irradiate or poison people..we have better weapons to do that with. Their use in the middle east was largely -not- tank busting, but shooting through concrete reenforced firing positions. With a DU round, you can hit the people on one floor without risking the people on the next, or in the next room..for that matter. You have to worry about or accept damage to buildings or people -behind- the target, but them's the breaks. Famously, Iraqi tanks in desert storm tried to use busted tanks for cover, but the du 120 smoothbore fired through the dead tanks and hit the target behind.
The choice facing a du user is thus;
Take fire from an enemy rpg, blast the room with du, or take down the entire building with he. In order to reduce collateral damage, including civilian casualties, du is preferred over he (obviously letting some asshole fling rockets at you is a non-option). The problem, after action, with du rounds isn't so much that they're radioactive, it's that they're poisonous - like all heavy metal rounds.
DU rounds are explicitly used for their greater penetrative profile. If we wanted to irradiate or poison people..we have better weapons to do that with. Their use in the middle east was largely -not- tank busting, but shooting through concrete reenforced firing positions. With a DU round, you can hit the people on one floor without risking the people on the next, or in the next room..for that matter. You have to worry about or accept damage to buildings or people -behind- the target, but them's the breaks. Famously, Iraqi tanks in desert storm tried to use busted tanks for cover, but the du 120 smoothbore fired through the dead tanks and hit the target behind.
The choice facing a du user is thus;
Take fire from an enemy rpg, blast the room with du, or take down the entire building with he. In order to reduce collateral damage, including civilian casualties, du is preferred over he (obviously letting some asshole fling rockets at you is a non-option). The problem, after action, with du rounds isn't so much that they're radioactive, it's that they're poisonous - like all heavy metal rounds.
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