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Ignoramus14555 wrote:

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:51:02 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:
The Phalanx anti-missile gun (of "oops, forgot to turn it on" fame) used
to use depleted uranium rounds, but they switched to tungsten. I have
no idea why, but if gunners had to use special gloves to load the dang
things it would make sense.

Thanks for the info. I hope that they are not wasting tungsten during
training.

i

IIRC, the army depends on tungsten shipments from China to make their
ammo.

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