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.

Probably moot anyway if Doug is correct and DU has been withdrawn.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

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?


Cheers
Marty