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Depleted Uranium has 40% less isotopes than raw Uranium found in nature, so you can safely handle ammunition or armor without risk of exposure.

It's the concentration of dust from knocked out tanks or targets (bunkers, etc.) that would pose a potential health problem until the DU oxidizes and returns to nature and becomes part of the natural background radiation, which doesn't take long.

So once a destroyed tank is washed out (rain or power-washing), it's ready to be dismantled and/or scrapped.
 
manta22 said:
The key word is "depleted."
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Does not matter. It's still a health risk.

"DU is a potential health hazard if it enters the body, such as through embedded fragments, contaminated wounds, and inhalation or ingestion. This is because U's radiation, while of high energy, penetrates poorly through tissues in the body."

"Some Gulf War, Bosnia, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and Operation New Dawn (OND) Veterans may have been exposed to DU when they were: on, in, or near vehicles hit with friendly fire; entering or near burning vehicles; near fires involving DU munitions; or salvaging damaged vehicles."

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However, if you read through the article you will see that studies are conflicting, and more studies are required.

Having said that, do you want to risk it and go play in a vehicle destroyed by depleted uranium rounds? I don't. Not worth the risk.
 

The real risk is from inhaling the dust.
 
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley for the first time met with his Ukrainian counterpart in person on Tuesday, traveling to an undisclosed site in Poland near the Ukrainian border, the Pentagon confirmed.

Milley, a general in the U.S. Army, met for a few hours with Ukraine's chief military officer, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, after taking a car from a Polish base to the unnamed location, journalists traveling with the top military official first reported.

The two "discussed the unprovoked and ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and exchanged perspectives and assessments," Army Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for Milley, said in a statement. "The Chairman reaffirmed unwavering support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity."

[...]

The group traveling to the meeting was kept small — just Milley and six of his senior staffers — with the conversation focused on new U.S. training of Ukrainian forces in Germany as well as to gather Zaluzhnyi's concerns to then relay the information to other military leaders at the NATO meeting.


I sure hope the topic of M1 Abrams was brought up. Nice to see that the Russians apparently had no idea this was happening ... in stark contrast to the opsec of their own generals.
 
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DNIPRO, Ukraine/KYIV, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Ukraine came a step closer on Tuesday in its bid to win a fleet of modern battle tanks it hopes could turn the course of the war with Russia, after the West's big holdout Germany said this would be the first item on its new defence minister's agenda.

[...]

German-made Leopard battle tanks, workhorse of armies across Europe, cannot be delivered without authorisation from Berlin, which has so far demurred.

With Western allies meeting at a U.S. air base in Germany on Friday to pledge military support for Ukraine, Berlin is under intense pressure to lift its objections this week.

The decision sits on the desk of Germany's new Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, named on Tuesday to replace Christine Lambrecht, who quit after comments critics called insensitive.

[...]

Scholz, speaking on Tuesday in an interview for Bloomberg TV, confirmed that discussions with Germany's allies on tanks were ongoing but should not be conducted in public.

[...]

Poland and Finland have already said they would send Leopards if Berlin gives re-export approval.

Separately, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday the Netherlands would join the United States and Germany in sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine.

Ukraine pushes for tanks as holdout Germany says new minister to decide

Ukraine came a step closer on Tuesday in its bid to win a fleet of modern battle tanks it hopes could turn the course of the war with Russia, after the West's big holdout Germany said this would be the first item on its new defence minister's agenda.
www.reuters.com

As we'd say in the pool hall, "Quit talkin' and start chalkin'."
 
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