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Rich wrote... It's highly uneiklly that anyone would use enriched uranium in a penetration/incendiary device...From what I gathered from the article it wasn't "highly enriched" material --- it was just more enriched than DU is. To me this could suggest some sort of experiment to see how the material spread. They needed to use more enriched material so that they could distinguish it from other DU munitions.Although, I think that's semi-plausible, I think a more likely reason is that through some combination of "a cock up" and "insufficient care" more enriched material was used in the manufacture of the munition. That is, the manufacturer of the munition had a lot of semi-enriched material to get rid of, and accidently used it for DU munitions. IIRC a large number of munitions were rushed to Israel during their invasion of Lebannon, so it seems quite plausible that such a mistake could be made in the rush to manufacture munitions.It's possibly even more likely that it was a deliberate quality control decision arising from a logistics cock-up: "we desparately need some more munitions, but we don't have DU available --- do we manufacture 'DU' munitions from semi-enriched material, now, or do we wait until we have proper DU available"?
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Dalidara
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
17 december 2014, 08:01:17
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