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2015-03-05 Iraq

A-10s Battling ISIS Won't Use Depleted Uranium Ammo

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2015-03-05 13:01|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Is this how to kill barbarian nicely?

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-03-05 13:12|| 2015-03-05 13:12|| Front Page Top

#2 ..well, you won't necessarily keep your lunch money playing these rules.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-05 13:17|| 2015-03-05 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Not really needed against infantry and soft skinned targets. Daesh doesn't have many tanks.

The HE rounds they use instead are much better against the targets Daesh has.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-05 13:18|| 2015-03-05 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 The DU rounds are for killing main battle tanks. Until Ford produces an up-armored F-150, there is simply no need.

Posted by SteveS 2015-03-05 13:19|| 2015-03-05 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Then they will make the adjustment. The regime retards continue to feed these jihadists critical information.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-03-05 13:24|| 2015-03-05 13:24|| Front Page Top

#6 No 30mm GAU-8? No problem. Please make another selection:

Up to 16,000 pounds (7,200 kilograms) of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75-inch (6.99 centimeters) rockets; illumination flares and:

MK-82 (500 pound bomb)
MK-84 (2000 pound bomb)
MK77 incendiary
10 MK20 Rockeye II (4 - 6 standard load)
10 CBU-52 (4 - 6 standard load)
10 CBU-58 (4 - 6 standard load)
10 CBU-71 (4 - 6 standard load)
10 CBU-87 (4 - 6 standard load)
10 CBU-89 (4 - 6 standard load)
CBU-97
10 BL755 (4 - 6 standard load)
AGM-65 Maverick missiles
GBU-10 laser-guided bomb
GBU-12 laser-guided bomb
AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-05 13:24|| 2015-03-05 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 - Drink UP!

Posted by Frank G 2015-03-05 16:02|| 2015-03-05 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn environmentalists triumph.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-05 17:42|| 2015-03-05 17:42|| Front Page Top

#9 So instead of a mix, they are going to pure HEI loadouts. The GAU-8 will use HEI instead of API ammo (thats the DU stuff, for the armor penetration). No big deal considering the class of targets they are seeing - they probably were doing this as a matter of course and cost effectiveness. Non-hardened targets make the API-DU rounds a less effective since they tend to fly right thru them (techicals and people and most of the houses there). HEI will instead blow up. HEI is what you tend to see in most of those A-10 vids where they kill terrs. Check out the explosions at impact - its a giveaway.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-05 18:28|| 2015-03-05 18:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Hell you could fire blue tips and kill a technical.

Posted by Albert Thravins4110 2015-03-05 18:43|| 2015-03-05 18:43|| Front Page Top

#11 First there is no need to use depleted uranium rounds when there are few tanks available to Daesh and other munitions for the ones they do find;
Secondly and more importantly, it's in extremely poor taste and not very smart to subject the Kurds and others friendly to the U.S. to the known birth defects that result from depleted uranium getting into drinking water or entering the body through other means.

Posted by Chantry 2015-03-05 18:46|| 2015-03-05 18:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Hell you could fire blue tips and kill a technical.

Posted by Albert Thravins4110 2015-03-05 18:52|| 2015-03-05 18:52|| Front Page Top

#13 They should announce though that the A-10's are firing "Pork-Enhanced" HE-I ammunition:p For that extra special zing.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-03-05 19:40|| 2015-03-05 19:40|| Front Page Top

#14 "As with asbestos and other carcinogenic materials, people exposed to the resulting dust or fumes—by breathing it in, eating contaminated food or drinking polluted water—might be in danger of developing serious health problems."

Here comes an A-10, not a good sign for your neighborhood. You are worried about diarrhea from contaminated ground water? I'd be more worried about becoming groundwater ...

Posted by Beau 2015-03-05 19:52|| 2015-03-05 19:52|| Front Page Top

#15 I agree with Beau. If you survive an A-10 attack with most of your body parts intact and still attached, you've had a very good outcome. Dying of cancer 20 years later is not an immediate concern.

Never let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-03-05 20:19|| 2015-03-05 20:19|| Front Page Top

#16 "Pork-Enhanced" HE-I ammunition

Has that wonderful 'Good Morning' smell when exploding, too.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-03-05 22:29|| 2015-03-05 22:29|| Front Page Top

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