Abrams in Europe and depleted uranium shells
More than once we have written on “VO” about the attempts of Western politicians and the military to teach the European people to the coming war with “aggressive” Russia, which is asleep and sees how to occupy the small Baltic countries and defenseless Poland. Now the advanced press has already reached the point of talking about the use of depleted uranium shells. Against whom, I wonder?
In the famous magazine "The National Interest" the specialist discusses the use by the US ground forces of “uranium silver bullets” (the poetic nickname for terrible shells for tanksstuffed with depleted uranium). Such ammunition, they say, would be a demonstration of the superiority of American forces. With tanks armed with such ammunition, "no one would fight." Already now this "no one wants."
The tank is a fast-moving, well-protected and heavily armed "hippo", which is designed to dominate the land battlefield, recalls on the pages of the magazine Kyle Mizokami, an analyst from San Francisco, who worked in the field of national security. His publications can be found in a number of publications: “Diplomat”, “Foreign Policy”, “War is Boring”, “Daily Beast”, also with 2009. He runs his own blog and communicates with the world’s population on Twitter.
Peoples compete in the production of tanks in the world and in war. The Americans came to the arena with their "M1 Abrams" - "an unsurpassed killer tank capable of destroying any tank on the field."
The tank "M1 Abrams" the US army first entered service in the 1980-ies. The US military chose the Royal Ordnance L105 7 cannon developed by the British (known as M68 in the United States). Over the years, the M68 has come to be considered proven and “good enough” weapons.
On the other hand, Pentagon officials wanted to equip the M1 tank with a larger thing: the M120 "Rheinmetall" 256-millimeter cannon. The Pentagon’s civilian leadership believed that such weapon “Partially” to “compensate” for Germany’s participation in the NATO AWACS program. In addition, a larger gun would show a promising path for the M1 tank: after all, a new gun would have allowed the tanks of the future equipped with heavier armor to win.
As a result, a compromise was reached: M1 was initially decided to produce with the M68 gun, but subsequently upgrade to M256. Moreover, a later version of the tank, at one time called the M1A1, had to be standardly equipped with a larger gun, the M256.
However, disputes about ammunition did not stop. The fire control system on the M1 was so developed that "it could hit a moving target at a distance of 2000 m with 90% accuracy."
At the same time, the United States was studying the use of depleted uranium as an armor-piercing striking element. A byproduct of nuclear fuel for reactors, depleted uranium is denser than existing tungsten projectile tips. Extremely highly accelerated depleted uranium (DU) projectile pierced an "unprecedented amount" of armor. The pyrophoric properties of uranium and steel would cause the DU to catch fire upon penetration of the armor, and the tank inside would receive “catastrophic damage”.
A tungsten projectile tip could pierce up to 350 millimeters of armor, as standard used to protect armored vehicles. But a projectile with an op amp could pierce 420-millimeter armor, located even at an angle of sixty degrees. For comparison: the larger Soviet 125 mm gun on the T-72 tank was able to penetrate the 450 mm of armor. And the most important thing for Americans: this new projectile, M774, could pierce the hull in the forehead, pierce the T-72 tower, where the armor was the “thickest”.
Efforts to develop the future of M1 weapons were soon useful to the Americans. It became known that the Soviet Union had a new main battle tank - T-80. American intelligence believed that the T-80, like other modern tanks, the M-1 and Leopard 2, switched from all-steel armor to a mixed composite, which included ceramic components. As a result, the so-called composite armor protection was significantly improved.
Improved M1A1, equipped with a larger 120-millimeter gun, went to the American conveyors from the 1985 of the year. The Persian Gulf War in 1991 showed that the MXN-depleted uranium shell M829A1 used by M1A1 against the Iraqi T-72 has a “devastating effect”. This projectile, called the “silver bullet”, could penetrate beyond the armor with a thickness of about 570 millimeters at a distance of two thousand meters. This would give a good result even against the T-80 "in the typical range" of the battle. And it gives an idea of the pure power of the 120-mm gun.
The latest generation of “bullets” (M829, M829E4 series) is designed to penetrate even thicker armor and hit active defense systems created for the latest Russian tanks, notes The National Interest.
Can the M828E4 penetrate beyond the armor of the new Russian tank T-14 "Armata"? Unknown.
The US Army does not yet intend to arm its M1 with a longer gun barrel to increase cannon speed or a larger diameter cannon, indicates Kyle Mizokami.
One thing is clear: the use of depleted uranium in the design of projectiles led to superiority in the armament of American tanks. Of course, it is not known how long the American combination of two guns and ammunition from the Shelter will exceed the protective armor of the enemy tanks, but given the excellent armor penetration, you can be sure that the Shelter will be used in armament and the new generation of tanks of the US Army, the analyst believes.
In 1999, on the territory of Serbia, reminds RIA "Katyusha", aviation NATO has consumed more than 50000 uranium core munitions. And here is what expert bomb expert Miriyana Anzhelkovich Lukic says: “At that time, radioactivity increased even in Italy. This means that Italy, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, not to mention us, all had an increased radiation background. But no one dared to say a word about this. For everyone was at the same time. To bomb and destroy one land, our Serbia. ”
Scary pictures of the southern regions of Serbia: two-headed and legless calves, octopus lamb, mouse with a tail of a squirrel. Radiation was detected in milk, chicken eggs and honey. Radomir Kovacevic, director of the Nuclear Radiation Protection Center at the Serbian Clinical Center, said: “At first, Americans did not want to recognize the use of weapons with depleted uranium. Probably would not have been recognized if it were not for the scandal associated with the death of European soldiers from the NATO contingent in Kosovo. Italians suffered the most, they got the most infected sector. According to the latest data, 45 of the Italian military died from cancer diseases, over 500 are sick, and the worst thing is that 25 has children with various severe anomalies ”.
The United States and its allies used "stuffing" of depleted uranium also in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, the publication points out. When uranium burns to a state of particles, it enters the human body with water and food, is inhaled with air. Radiation exposure always happens. A speck of dust with a diameter of 10 μm emits one alpha particle every 2 hour. Of course, the Pentagon claims that it does not find a link between depleted uranium and cancer in the above-mentioned Iraq. But there are recorded the birth of children with congenital defects and the highest incidence of cancer.
Tanks "Abrams", we add, is not far from Moscow - at a distance of only seven hundred kilometers. In February, ten American MNNXA1 "Abrams" arrived in Lithuania, then four tanks to Estonia. Fifteen tanks were brought to Latvia. “As we know,” said the TV channel "Star" expert on foreign armies of NATO, Alexander Zimovsky, - American tanks stationed in Estonia, in 700 kilometers from Moscow. Although in Sumy, in Ukraine, Ukrainian tanks are standing, they are even closer to Moscow. I'll tell you more: American tanks are now in 150 km from St. Petersburg, and in 30 km from Grodno and 140 km from Minsk. This is the real operational deployment of US / NATO troops in Europe ... "
What kind of adversary are American analysts thinking about the shells with depleted uranium and their superiority? On the population of which country do strategists at the Pentagon, who have previously “trained” in Yugoslavia and Iraq, reflect?
In the famous magazine "The National Interest" the specialist discusses the use by the US ground forces of “uranium silver bullets” (the poetic nickname for terrible shells for tanksstuffed with depleted uranium). Such ammunition, they say, would be a demonstration of the superiority of American forces. With tanks armed with such ammunition, "no one would fight." Already now this "no one wants."
The tank is a fast-moving, well-protected and heavily armed "hippo", which is designed to dominate the land battlefield, recalls on the pages of the magazine Kyle Mizokami, an analyst from San Francisco, who worked in the field of national security. His publications can be found in a number of publications: “Diplomat”, “Foreign Policy”, “War is Boring”, “Daily Beast”, also with 2009. He runs his own blog and communicates with the world’s population on Twitter.
Peoples compete in the production of tanks in the world and in war. The Americans came to the arena with their "M1 Abrams" - "an unsurpassed killer tank capable of destroying any tank on the field."
The tank "M1 Abrams" the US army first entered service in the 1980-ies. The US military chose the Royal Ordnance L105 7 cannon developed by the British (known as M68 in the United States). Over the years, the M68 has come to be considered proven and “good enough” weapons.
On the other hand, Pentagon officials wanted to equip the M1 tank with a larger thing: the M120 "Rheinmetall" 256-millimeter cannon. The Pentagon’s civilian leadership believed that such weapon “Partially” to “compensate” for Germany’s participation in the NATO AWACS program. In addition, a larger gun would show a promising path for the M1 tank: after all, a new gun would have allowed the tanks of the future equipped with heavier armor to win.
As a result, a compromise was reached: M1 was initially decided to produce with the M68 gun, but subsequently upgrade to M256. Moreover, a later version of the tank, at one time called the M1A1, had to be standardly equipped with a larger gun, the M256.
However, disputes about ammunition did not stop. The fire control system on the M1 was so developed that "it could hit a moving target at a distance of 2000 m with 90% accuracy."
At the same time, the United States was studying the use of depleted uranium as an armor-piercing striking element. A byproduct of nuclear fuel for reactors, depleted uranium is denser than existing tungsten projectile tips. Extremely highly accelerated depleted uranium (DU) projectile pierced an "unprecedented amount" of armor. The pyrophoric properties of uranium and steel would cause the DU to catch fire upon penetration of the armor, and the tank inside would receive “catastrophic damage”.
A tungsten projectile tip could pierce up to 350 millimeters of armor, as standard used to protect armored vehicles. But a projectile with an op amp could pierce 420-millimeter armor, located even at an angle of sixty degrees. For comparison: the larger Soviet 125 mm gun on the T-72 tank was able to penetrate the 450 mm of armor. And the most important thing for Americans: this new projectile, M774, could pierce the hull in the forehead, pierce the T-72 tower, where the armor was the “thickest”.
Efforts to develop the future of M1 weapons were soon useful to the Americans. It became known that the Soviet Union had a new main battle tank - T-80. American intelligence believed that the T-80, like other modern tanks, the M-1 and Leopard 2, switched from all-steel armor to a mixed composite, which included ceramic components. As a result, the so-called composite armor protection was significantly improved.
Improved M1A1, equipped with a larger 120-millimeter gun, went to the American conveyors from the 1985 of the year. The Persian Gulf War in 1991 showed that the MXN-depleted uranium shell M829A1 used by M1A1 against the Iraqi T-72 has a “devastating effect”. This projectile, called the “silver bullet”, could penetrate beyond the armor with a thickness of about 570 millimeters at a distance of two thousand meters. This would give a good result even against the T-80 "in the typical range" of the battle. And it gives an idea of the pure power of the 120-mm gun.
The latest generation of “bullets” (M829, M829E4 series) is designed to penetrate even thicker armor and hit active defense systems created for the latest Russian tanks, notes The National Interest.
Can the M828E4 penetrate beyond the armor of the new Russian tank T-14 "Armata"? Unknown.
The US Army does not yet intend to arm its M1 with a longer gun barrel to increase cannon speed or a larger diameter cannon, indicates Kyle Mizokami.
One thing is clear: the use of depleted uranium in the design of projectiles led to superiority in the armament of American tanks. Of course, it is not known how long the American combination of two guns and ammunition from the Shelter will exceed the protective armor of the enemy tanks, but given the excellent armor penetration, you can be sure that the Shelter will be used in armament and the new generation of tanks of the US Army, the analyst believes.
In 1999, on the territory of Serbia, reminds RIA "Katyusha", aviation NATO has consumed more than 50000 uranium core munitions. And here is what expert bomb expert Miriyana Anzhelkovich Lukic says: “At that time, radioactivity increased even in Italy. This means that Italy, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, not to mention us, all had an increased radiation background. But no one dared to say a word about this. For everyone was at the same time. To bomb and destroy one land, our Serbia. ”
Scary pictures of the southern regions of Serbia: two-headed and legless calves, octopus lamb, mouse with a tail of a squirrel. Radiation was detected in milk, chicken eggs and honey. Radomir Kovacevic, director of the Nuclear Radiation Protection Center at the Serbian Clinical Center, said: “At first, Americans did not want to recognize the use of weapons with depleted uranium. Probably would not have been recognized if it were not for the scandal associated with the death of European soldiers from the NATO contingent in Kosovo. Italians suffered the most, they got the most infected sector. According to the latest data, 45 of the Italian military died from cancer diseases, over 500 are sick, and the worst thing is that 25 has children with various severe anomalies ”.
The United States and its allies used "stuffing" of depleted uranium also in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, the publication points out. When uranium burns to a state of particles, it enters the human body with water and food, is inhaled with air. Radiation exposure always happens. A speck of dust with a diameter of 10 μm emits one alpha particle every 2 hour. Of course, the Pentagon claims that it does not find a link between depleted uranium and cancer in the above-mentioned Iraq. But there are recorded the birth of children with congenital defects and the highest incidence of cancer.
Tanks "Abrams", we add, is not far from Moscow - at a distance of only seven hundred kilometers. In February, ten American MNNXA1 "Abrams" arrived in Lithuania, then four tanks to Estonia. Fifteen tanks were brought to Latvia. “As we know,” said the TV channel "Star" expert on foreign armies of NATO, Alexander Zimovsky, - American tanks stationed in Estonia, in 700 kilometers from Moscow. Although in Sumy, in Ukraine, Ukrainian tanks are standing, they are even closer to Moscow. I'll tell you more: American tanks are now in 150 km from St. Petersburg, and in 30 km from Grodno and 140 km from Minsk. This is the real operational deployment of US / NATO troops in Europe ... "
What kind of adversary are American analysts thinking about the shells with depleted uranium and their superiority? On the population of which country do strategists at the Pentagon, who have previously “trained” in Yugoslavia and Iraq, reflect?
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