We used to call them R2-D2 with a hard-. The rounds are made up of some very nasty stuff that I don’t think I can divulge. You did not touch them with bare hands without fearing what might happen to the boys downstairs…..
Ding, Ding, Ding! What is depleted uranium Alex! What do I win?
depleted uranium bullet This is why the U.S. Army prefers to use depleted uranium over tungsten ammunition. If you look on the chart you can see that the depleted uranium is a material that has a characteristic that allows it to sharpen itself as it penetrates the target. The uranium shreds off the sides of the penetrator instead of squashing or mushrooming. If you look at the lower picture, which is what happens with tungsten, the tungsten mushrooms. The result is the depleted uranium will penetrate more armor of a given character and type at a given range than tungsten will, no matter how we design the penetrators.
