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Which countries make bullets with Depleted Uranium?

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Although it's called depleted Uranium, but it's still radioactive and toxic, it also have high density and high stiffness. read more

The second major use of depleted uranium is making Depleted Uranium Armour, for tanks . It has remarkable protective performance. According to the open sources, USA was the only one who is actually used it, but there are more than 20 countries have DU-made weapons and have unknown amount of DU-weapon reserves. That's not some good news. read more

You take depleted uranium, melt it down and form it into the basic shape of the bullet, then you might put a copper, brass or steel ‘jacket’ on it depending on what you wanted to use the bullet for. read more

The DU penetrator of a 30 mm round. Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium. Natural uranium contains about 0.72% U-235, while the DU used by the U.S. Department of Defense contains 0.3% U-235 or less. read more

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