Martin Baxter wrote in message ...
Joe wrote:



Marty depleted uranium is saved for bigger things than trucks.
Mostly found on tanks. Typical DU round has to cost a couple of grand.

You may well be correct about the cost of the round, however the average soldier
doesn't usually pause to consider the cost of the ordnance, and if he did he
probably wouldn't care. Armed forces have never had a great image of being misers
with the taxpayers money.

Further, could you tell me how you would select a different round for the 30 mm chain
gun on an Apache, you shoot what you were armed with.

I guess you load out the proper ammo.


Probably moot anyway if Doug is correct and DU has been withdrawn.

If your gonna spend that kind of money on a few cut throte murders
running in fields you might as well vaporize the whole bunch with a
hellfire missle.

I don't know why they didn't do just that, I have an uneasy feeling that
they were having fun, like at a video arcade.

Not me, They chose the proper weapon and used it. No since in spending
300 thousand when 700 dollars will do the job



If you do not want to be killed in a field by someone you can not
see, you should not be running around with weapons used to kill the
guy who just killed you. You follow me?

How do you know for sure that was a weapon? Maybe they were just farmers
going to install some new drainage tile in the ditch?

Yeah right!

I saw the video on ABC and the local channels last week, it's much
more clear and bright than the one on the internet, with great detail.
You can clearly see he tossed a RPG in the field. No if and or buts
about it. Soviet made RPG is very easy to ID, it was not drainage
tile. And with all the recent attacks on our pilots using RPG's your
not going to find a pilot in Iraq that would give a second thought
about smoking guys that have RPG's.

Joe
MSV RedCloud



Cheers
Marty