Russia arming missile warheads with depleted uranium, Ukraine’s SBU says
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-arming-missile-warheads-with-depleted-uranium-ukraines-sbu-says/
Russia arming missile warheads with depleted uranium, Ukraine’s SBU says
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-arming-missile-warheads-with-depleted-uranium-ukraines-sbu-says/
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Depleted uranium is toxic to the environment and small debris can be ingested and cause organ damage.
NATO should consider this a red line if a missile debris reaches NATO groundwater
Seems a wee bit desperate, ehh?
Although the article doen’t state it outright, I assume an R-60 air-to-air missile normally has a DU warhead. This isn’t some new Russian terror tactic so much as they put an AA missile on a Geran-2 for some reason.
It is basically “If I can’t take the land then I will ruin it”. There needs to be special meeting in the United Nations about this.
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They are using their old R-60 stocks. Those missiles come stock with an continuous rod DU warhead. No defence of Russia here, but this isn’t some shocking news. Russia already uses depleted uranium in it’s tank shells. Not sure if Ukraine uses it but it’s not unheard of (NATO tanks use DU, and Ukraine also uses the R-60 missiles).
I think it’s a bit rich for ukraine to complain now that Russia is starting to use depleted uranium in missiles when they were supplied a one hundred thousand depleted uranium APDS rounds for the Abrams tanks they mooched out of the United States and used them all two years ago.
Look at them, not me doing the same thing. Liars!
[Depleted uranium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium) is used by quite a few armed forces
We probably don’t want to talk about the munitions we build on tribal land. Choctaw defense would never./s Good thing we have sovereignty none of those pesky treaties getting in the way. Oklahoma is basically a super fund site with gas stations and plutonium.
Didn’t US do this with tank rounds in desert storm?
Armour piercing missiles per chance?
Ukraine did that to with tanks.
We literally have .50 rounds that are DU. We as in the U.S. this is just more rage bait bullshit
DU is for penetrating hard targets
Who remembers kacaps crying over “nuclear munitions” when tanks were sent to Ukraine?