Depleted Uranium Tank Ammunition | DEADLY DARTS 💀☄️

To understand why DU makes a good anti-tank weapon you have to enter the Alice In Wonderland world of high-energy collisions. When metal meets metal at five times the speed of sound, hardened steel shatters like glass. Metal flows like putty, or simply vaporises. A faster shell does not necessarily go through more armour, but, like a pebble thrown into a pond, it makes a bigger splash.
Armour penetration is increased by concentrating the force of a shell into as small an area as possible, so the projectiles tend to look like giant darts. The denser the projectile, the harder the impact for a given size. DU is almost twice as dense as lead, making it highly suitable. The other metal used for anti-tank rounds is tungsten, which is also very hard and dense. When a tungsten rod strikes armour, it deforms and mushrooms, making it progressively blunter. Uranium is "pyrophoric": at the point of impact it burns away into vapour, so the projectile stays sharp. When it breaks through, the burning DU turns the inside of a vehicle into an inferno of white-hot gas and sparks.
Today we talk about Depleted Uranium Tank Ammunition
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[@MRsolidcolor]

you wil never get rid of the tank or its rounds we have so much DU. and after seeing the war in Ukraine we see the need more and more. because as you can see Russia has ran out of smart bombs nearly. noting beats a hard dart. and the army has just changed to a new round that drops the round type count down to 2. DU and a new HE type that's just bad ass. DU is only needed vs tanks so they made this round./

[@jasontipton8430]

Yeah little dirty bombs that contaminate the environment with radio active material and cause massive cancer rates after we leave for thousands of years

[@kirstyblack3432]

@@MRsolidcolor We haven't sent any to Ukraine yet. (let alone 10 months ago.) But I imagine we will eventually, possibly when we finally send the Abrams. Has anyone read, seen, or heard that there are DU rounds being used in Ukraine? so much miss-information

[@ericlarson9386]

Back in 1994, when I first became an Armor Officer in the WIARNG, this was all classified info. Imagine what we will learn in 25 more years.

[@texaskippen]

I was with 1-37 AR out of Germany, I loved my job, gunnery was a blast, except when we thought the deer were targets and they took a heat round

[@ericlarson9386]

@@texaskippen I got a deer with an APFSDS in Ft Knox . I do remember a flock of turkeys and my M2 in Ft. McCoy, WI.

[@texaskippen]

@@ericlarson9386 that is where I did my basic, I think it was 2-81, been a long time, oh and that damn 15m hike up that damn hill, but yep, lots and lots of deer there, good times

[@ericlarson9386]

@@texaskippen those 3 damn hills. I remember watching the CO ride by int a van to the top, get out and yell to us "If I can do it, you can to."

[@texaskippen]

@@ericlarson9386 hahahahahaha, sounds about right

[@Masukutonkatsu]

These Shells: Exist* War Thunder: *_R I C O C H E T_*

[@Halucination08]

Russian Bias lol

[@neko281]

Bigi Ty War thunder really needs to change and fix their shit

[@Deeznutzo_]

Russian bias, nobody would wanna fight America if the tanks were how they actually are lol

[@Mark-ft7nw]

lol

[@smokyblackeyes3615]

War thunder just count it as Ricochet what the hell war thunder

[@jakedee4117]

I love Heavy Metal. Uranium, Tungsten, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, all of it.

[@malikfaisalnazir3578]

I'm have

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[@Loki52020]

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[@saveimageas...9352]

Dont forget about grandpa lead

[@zachjensen5863]

If they could only harness the destructive power of being in a long term marriage.

[@Sethrod8]

Zach Jensen or the destructive power of being friend zoned

[@ItsNotAllRainbows_and_Unicorns]

Or the destructive power of stupidity one comes across in FB

[@leons.kennedy6710]

😆

[@Dandaldaks]

you okay my dude?

[@charlessmith6412]

@@ItsNotAllRainbows_and_Unicorns FB stupidity seems to be unlimited. And potentially very destructive. If only it could be harnessed for good.

[@Itsalldowntomatt]

Finally, a non-clickbait and non-robot voiced KZbinr talking about military stuff. Subbed

[@ThZuao]

1:30 "[..]Uranium. The heaviest, naturally occuring element on earth" Nope. Tungsten is heavier by a little more than 1% (Naturally occuring Uranium is lighter). Gold, platinum, indium and osmium are even heavier, but Gold is the cheapest one of these four. You would bankrupt your entire army by ordering a few rounds of those. It's not that DU is cheap, it's actually that it is rather useless. Tungsten has a wide applicability in machine tools, so it has some intrinsic value. That makes DU the perfect alternative for when you have cheap dead weight that does not accupy much space, like aircraft ballast and trim weights. Natural uranium has a 0.77% of fissionable uranium. Reactor designs vary, but you have to crank that percentage up to turn it into fuel rods, the most being 3% Uranium 235. You have to extract that 0.77 from more uranium, depleting it of it in the process. In the end, for every kg of reactor fuel (3% enrichment), you end with about 4kg of DU. For weapons grade uranium, every 1 kg of 80% pure uranium leaves you with about 104Kg of DU. The Little Boy bomb design built in Hiroshima had 64kg of Uranium enriched to an average of 80%. The US built 26 of them. And that was only the very first design they "mass produced". The way they do it is through Isotopic Separation. The uranium enriching process involves turning natural Uranium into Uranium fluoride (UF4), a fine yellow powder known as "yellowcake". You take that powder and throw it into a centrifuge. Much like Plasma separating from blood cells in medical centrifuges, uranium centrifuges make the heaviest elements go to the outer casing of the centrifuge drum whereas the lightes ones stay in the center. But there's so little of the slightly lighter U235 compound they have to scrape off the outer layer of the thing and repeat the process over and over and over again until you end up with the desired concentration. Industrial scale uranium refining involves scraping off most of the powder from the inside of the centrifuge and sequentially throwing it into the next, each step containing more and more U235. For reactor grade uranium, dozens of centrifuges are used. For weapons grade (80% and up), the number of centrifuges running, each scraping off that little bit more of U235, numbers in the thousands. As stated above, Depleted Uranium is indeed rather useless. There have been some developments in it's use as fuel in the MOX and Breeder cycle, but their use involves plutonium, and you know, no proliferation and stuff. The alternative is developing the Thorium Fuel cycle that turns U238 in U232 withouth going through Plutonium, but I don't know how close to a practical reactor we are (India is investing heavily in it, though). Using it in ammunition or armor was only natural. Because it's heavy weight favors it as a cheaper alternative to Tungsten. It was then when the "self sharpening" property was discovered and the use proliferated through nuclear capable countries. Some countries, like Germany itself, insist in using Tungsten penetrators still. The Dart KEP round is not good because of the Uranium. It is a good design by itself. Projectiles have a measurement taken into consideration when you want to design them for penetration, not only through armor, but through flesh and air as well. It is the Ballistic Coefficient, which is basically a relationship of the length and the diameter of the projectile. You can see it as a bunch of mass trying to get through the same hole. It's easy to picture that a dart will have a much easier time getting through a flat piece of steel than a ball, right? That's, in simple therms, because there's a lot more mass carrying momentum behind the tip of the dart rather than spreading it out like the ball. That stream of thought is what made them design a "dart" as a kinetic energy penetrator for tank guns, known as a Long Rod Penetrator. The concept has been applied since the T-62. And finally, a topic I think you broached briefly. Depleted Uranium is, by itself, pretty much harmless. You can handle them all day and carry some in your pocket withouth deviating from the mean chance of Cancer in the general population. DU still has some leftover U235 in it, but overall it's pretty inert. It's half life is like 4.5 billion years (that's almost the age of the Earth itself...), meaning it is still radioactive, but releases it's energy sooooo slowly it's pretty much harmless. In fact you'll be exposed to more radiation in an 8h flight than by sitting all day in a DU ammunition storage shack. DU is actually used as radiation shielding, and it's better than Lead at it. The health concern with it is not the practically nonexistent radiation, but rather because it is still a heavy metal, very much like lead in that regard. The controversy about DU rounds it's because their impacts pulverize the projectile and creates a fine heavy metal dust that can be inhaled. And one final note, about the monocristalinic thing people get wrong all the time. Even prof. Martyn Poliakoff (from Periodic Videos) got that wrong, and I too was taught that wrong until I studied Engineering an actual expert in the matter taught me otherwise. You said in 8:08, It is not the monocristalinic nature of a material that makes it strong. Get that out of your head. It's the other way around *The finer the grains in a metal, the stronger it is*. This is due to the way the crystals are arranged. They form an homogenous, orderly crystal, so if you have "large metalic crystal" *that's the weakest it can possibly be*. Materials do not break by severing the atomic bonds with eachoter, but rather by atoms sliding off one another. This is the Sliding Planes theory, and if you look deeper into material science, you'll see this orderly structure crystals arrange themselves in has a ton of sliding planes. When a piece is made out of a mess of tiny little crystals, that means that there's a tangled mess of these sliding planes a crack has to go through. As the atoms on a crystal slide off one another, rather than going into a single direction as they would in a monocristalinic piece, they have to change directions as the orientation of the cristaline structure (the sliding planes) of the next crystal is totally different. *This is why the finer (and the more there are) "chaotic mess of tiny crystals" is much stronger than a monocrystaline piece!* I would recomend R. C. Hiebbler's Mechanics of Materials if you want to learn more. That's a staple engineering book and the best one about it around. You may have reached that erroneous conclusion because jet engine parts are made of monocrystalinic pieces. And that's true. They have to be monocrystalinic because they have to be strong, right? Wrong. Turbine parts work at very high temperatures. And high temperatures tend to erase any work you try to do to refine the grain structure of a material, turning it into a single crystal. So to get that out of your head *turbines are monocrystalinic because they have to be designed at their weakest due to high working temperatures". There has been a lot of research done in this regard to alloying and how they affect the crystaline structure of a metal, which are especially important for high temperature applications. There's also vacancies, substitutive elements and other stuff that break the sliding plane thing and help make a material stronger, but this comment is already too damn long. I would only recommend you read some of Hiebbeler's book again if you want to learn about them.

[@raymondj8768]

did this take all nite to research n write down hahaha

[@raymondj8768]

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[@raymondj8768]

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[@mkrump9403]

((every 1 kg of 80% pure uranium leaves you with about 104Kg of DU. The Little Boy bomb design built in Hiroshima had 64kg of Uranium enriched to an average of 80%. The US built 26 of them. And that was only the very first design they "mass produced".)) = So for one bomb of 64kg pure uranium: they had to create/waste 6656kg of DU (Depleted Uranium)... 3 tones of waste DU. From the infantry part: once guys had to search these zones... Yeah by logic they must using mask or avoid the search at these chemical hazardous zones or using robot. As you said the projectile itself is not dangerous. But the mix with other combustibles that makes death/toxic smoke around. This type of heavy smoke can travel for miles. From a legal view it can turn to be friendly fire by chemical asset/biological warfare. ((lot of sh*t)) Like those who exposed them self in search inside enemy vehicles and fortifications at first Iraq war in 90's. Thank you for your comment. I hope you find a work/status right for you. I might read about R.C. Hiebbler's mechanics of materials. I feel myself too old and I do like my style of life now to get myself back at school. Plus I do not have any ear problems except I still must be careful on my personal training. I was lucky to have the ear fix. Contrary to what others think about infantry, if you dont think... you die. If you can not think you die. So yeah it's all about managing his own drama and his future actions. But most men are not managing their emotion by proper perceptions and they become more childish and children are not managing their emotion. Children needs supervision for emotional support and social skill abilities. Then they build their own as teenagers. The first step to really think is knowing how to stop thinking and switch on focus when it need to done it with all means possible. That is earned in infantry course. We do it without knowing it that is the true. You must to be 100% there is you say no to supervisor and you can not back down after words. ((No I won't check this metals scraps Sir... I need the right tool for this.)) A true leader will visual himself first in the same action, giving to the men.

[@Minuz1]

Thorium is the 39th most common element in the earth's crust, Uranium is 51st. Uranium also has to be heavily refined to be able to use in reactors, much more then thorium which can almost be used as is. Kirk Sorensen compared it to burning up platinum when it reached the end product. (I'm no nuclear theorist, but your claims are far away from what little knowledge I've gathered on the subject so far)

[@wuznab5109]

Deadliest game of darts ever known.

[@comradedog4075]

Yes the radioactive type...

[@kajetus0688]

@@comradedog4075 look at the mamę DEPLETED uranium it Has minimal radiation

[@MrGregory777]

You never played real Darts I see

[@scrubsrc4084]

@@kajetus0688 still don't want to be kicking up or breathing in dust left over

[@dougsteel7414]

You've never played in my local

[@pineappleshake3952]

Do a bob semple tank overview!

[@izhammarzuki7907]

This!!!!

[@yelectric1893]

Yes

[@Apost0345]

Omg yes

[@mashedpotato238]

Omg yes do it

[@somebloke8114]

NZ Represent

[@charlieebarb8695]

It’s not only used as a munition, it’s also in the armor. ( former 2146 main battle tank mechanic for the USMC )

[@Wilett614]

EXACTLY !

[@longsleevethong1457]

Only the “battle ready tanks” had the du armor. I was a 19k in the army and I never got on a du armor tank.

[@mjb0183]

Cool. The US is poisoning the world. Babies with birth defects off the charts in Iraq. My USA is the REAL EVIL EMPIRE. And F all these young dumb-F’s who play these call of duty video games. Get a life losers. Haha

[@longsleevethong1457]

@Lercher21 do you even hear yourself? What dust? As in if the projectile penetrates the armor? You’re worried about dust when the armor is penetrated??? Wow. Jfc. Again. Only certain tanks have the du armor. Not all.

[@longsleevethong1457]

@Lercher21 it has an nbc system that can filter nuclear contamination. Wow

[@Snazzy_Pantz]

Well, at least the debate about that ammo is healthy!

[@publiusscipio5697]

But Are they as deadly as lawn darts?

[@afatcatfromsweden]

Nah

[@toxicatto6074]

Maybe

[@toxicatto6074]

But pretty sure nah

[@Steppy-qx9tq]

Nah, they’re deadlier than lawn darts.

[@haroldhenderson2824]

Deadliness is not measured on a scale. Dead = dead! Bullet, dart, arrow, blast or shrapnel; ALL the same amount of deadliness. Hit in the foot, lose your foot. Hit in the head (from ear to ear), you die. One of the most destructive effects of penetrators (all types) is spall. The very hot bits of YOUR external armor that are now zipping around INSIDE your tank starting fires, breaking equipment and hurting people.

[@karlp8484]

Interestingly, the Germans with the same gun do not use DU. They use a tungsten mono-block penetrator. Given the possibility that Germans would be fighting on their own territory, they didn't want DU dust/shavings littering their countryside. What they lose of course is the dramatic incendiary behind armour effect (DU burns like a mad bastard when it gets super compressed). But there's no indication that German rounds are ineffective against the threat (Russian tanks).

[@Apost0345]

Well germany could always face america in a potential war

[@ignisg715]

Actually germany is not sure wether they can pen the Front of a t14.

[@Apost0345]

@@ignisg715 Well im pretty sure they cant pen it yet.

[@AugmentedGravity]

@@ignisg715 im pretty sure they can, with the L55 and DM63

[@Lobos222]

+KarlP Well, "too bad" they are allied with the US and they still use the A10 with DU ammo as default. That is the cause of the negative environmental impact. A10 spreading the shit all over the place and using it on "everything". Do A10 in Afghanistan today need DU or could they settle for HE or something when they only attack jalla guys with AKs.

[@holyravioli5795]

Pfft, nokia's are far superior ammunition. Its indestructible so it can go through anything. Science.

[@thraxironhide1674]

Did you know that a Nokia is so indestructible that it melts through the earth's crust and reaches the core cuz of how much energy it releases. That's why Nokia are very rarely found on the surface.

[@wino0000006]

@@thraxironhide1674 Nah - Nokia gets yoyo effect - once it passes the Earths crust - it goes out in... Australia.

[@YEAHKINDA]

@@wino0000006 There's several hundred million of them out in the Outback scattered around and I intend to find them.

[@brianharrigan8821]

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[@ExcuseMe881]

But then what happens if it impacts Nokia armor plates?

[@lv.99mastermind45]

Another health risk is an enemy tank surviving long enough to take you out.

[@TheAdriyaman]

The health risk mentioned in the video is to the civilian population in the area during the following decades, not to the crew of the tank during war time.

[@robertlennihan3113]

@@TheAdriyaman 👍👍

[@robertlennihan3113]

@@TheAdriyaman don’t think for a second they didn’t use radioactively hot shit

[@rc59191]

@@robertlennihan3113 you got evidence of that?

[@robertlennihan3113]

@@rc59191 Yeah right here

[@showmefish]

At 5:40 there is mention made that the round incurs NO ballistic drop out to 3000 meters. This is not possible. If the barrel were completely horizontal the round would begin dropping at with an acceleration of G as soon as it leaves the barrel. Any round from any weapon system will encounter ballistic drop, unless it is powered (like a rocket). It's just physics.

[@kingz_kenyan9160]

Its true it will encounter a drop....I think the guy used the engineer's point of view where due to high velocity of the round, the round covers the 3000 meters so fast that that the drop is negligible...i.e it does not make it deviate in a significant angle that can compromise point accuracy.

[@Allangulon]

Angular momentum may explain the apparent lack of drop in that if the projectile can exceed the distance required to overcome the drop/Earth curvature it would appear to have no drop, much like a satellite orbiting the planet!

[@cargo_vroom9729]

true, but i would assume that the idea is no drop in the practical sense, as in having a very long point blank range.

[@lbbradley55]

You are so correct. When any projectile leaves the barrel it has two things working against it. ~Gravity and AIR ! ~

[@nixic_]

@@lbbradley55 No such thing as gravity bro.... the earth is pushing up on the round...

[@boris335]

NATO be like : Sorry for droping 10 tons of uranium on ur land

[@abdilraufdogan4982]

Guns dont kill people do

[@fuadhuskic234]

Just killing people acting like that where’s Geneva convention allow weapons for mas destruction who ever do like that it’s really bad nation

[@Οδοιπόρος]

@@jonclarkson7433 Maybe you don't realize most people in the world don't actually like America. If you want to understand why, read your own comment.

[@FuckTheGlobal]

Merica...

[@bru_5741]

When you kill this generation and laid natural landmine for next generation ,yeets in nato

[@colonelstriker2519]

Dang it. I will never unsee APFSDS rounds as over glorified Lawn darts

[@tonyromano6220]

Colonel Striker 251 🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@jamesbeattie8800]

Lawn darts are banned from being sold... APFSDS DU rounds are just spicy anti tank lawn darts

[@_Matsimus_]

Hope you enjoy everyone! Please share the video around if you could! 😀 Reddit, Facebook and the like! It helps me a lot! Have a GREAT day and keep smiling! "SABOT UP! .......FIRE AND ADJUST!!..............ON THE WAY!!" 💥💨 💥🔥

[@Will831100]

I still prefer the MK1 hot teabag. Those buggers burn like anything, especially if they explode into shrapnel. Sod phosphorus or depleted uranium.

[@zodsmuffin2369]

TOW 2 F will fuck up all tanks

[@zodsmuffin2369]

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[@zachyeomans8925]

Hey since you are in the army up here, this is for you bro. Members of the Armed Forces will not be allowed to consume cannabis during a shift or domestic exercise. They will not be allowed to bring cannabis on any aircraft or vessel and are not permitted to bring cannabis with them internationally. As far as day-to-day tasks, military members cannot consume cannabis up to eight hours before performing any duty, up to 24 hours before handling a loaded weapon or driving a vehicle, and up to 28 days before joining the crew of an aircraft or submarine. Thanks for your service sir!

[@charliekilo8944]

for shame! gotta assert that british dominance! 'FIN TANK ON ---- LOADED --- FIRE ---- FIRING ---- *kaBOOM* TARGET --- TARGET STOP'

[@roycelabor4339]

Well done Sir! I was the Chief of Armor Force DS/S Lessons Learned for the U.S. Army & you absolutely nailed all of the key points about the round & the Abrams.

[@TheJimtanker]

Well, there were a few minor points he got wrong but very good for a civilian.

[@d17a2dude]

@@TheJimtanker he's not a civilian

[@TheJimtanker]

@@d17a2dude So Matsimus was in the military? He needs to do better research then.

[@d17a2dude]

@@TheJimtanker He's in the canadian military at the moment from what i understand

[@TheJimtanker]

@@d17a2dude OK, maybe he still could have done more research.

[@frankcramo4414]

Just stumbled upon your channel and I am blown away by the content and in-depth information with each video. My roommate is a Gulf war veteran with severe PTSD and after watching a couple hours of your videos I haven't seen him as engaged and happy with anything as your videos in such a long time. It may not seen like much, however, many people don't understand the suffering, mental breakdowns and the plethora of other debilitating health issues they go through. You don't know how grateful I am for you and your work and wanted to pass along the amazing difference you made in a Marine veterans life. Thank you greatly and be well.

[@kirstyblack3432]

Tell him thanks for his service for me. thank you.

[@stephenpowstinger733]

You wouldn’t think a video about tank ammunition would be an aid for ptsd sufferers ,but whatever works. A Vietnam vet.

[@SIG_X]

Ahhh nothing makes me harder than a good ole Abrams. God bless you matsimus you're one of the few supplying us military addicts* without the shitty robot voices

[@CMDRSweeper]

Just don't play the M1A1 Abrams mod that was added to Operation Flashpoint back in the day. Whenever you were fighting that tank, the turbine was so loud that you had to stop the tank, switch off the engine, communicate, then start it back up again and execute the plan. Yes, it was so bad that even with VOIP volume cranked up, you couldn't hear the other guy over VOIP... Suffice to say, the more silent diesel engine of the T90 became the mainstay vehicle of choice :D

[@richardprzybylek2690]

The 120 with DU rounds is a killer combo, even the training rounds could do alot of damage on there own and those were fun to shoot

[@duke0salt717]

Man shooting a Russian tank with one of those has gotta be fun. The terrible ammo placement basically means it cooks no matter where you shoot it.

[@jaikumar848]

hi mastimus! could you please make video on rocket assisted projectiles and hypersonic projectiles?

[@spdfatomicstructure]

Former tank crew here. I do have a distinct preference for depleted uranium because its pyrophoricity means that APFSDS shells using depleted uranium end up detonating behind the armour that they have penetrated despite theoretically being kinetic warheads, which is quite the spectacle. That said tungsten carbide isn't exactly a pushover either given that it can still cripple tanks by damaging critical subsystems like propulsion and fire control

[@cavalryscout]

I'm an old "Dino Tanker" and we used the 105mm SABOT rounds. We were told the "dart" cuts thru the armor and the fragments it makes doing so spreads them around inside the turret to destroy equipment and personnel. Possibly causing a catastrophic internal explosion, especially sionce Soviet era tanks have exposed ammo under the floor.

[@muninrob]

@@cavalryscout Out of curiosity, how did you guys deal with the brittleness of the tungsten carbide? When I was in as an aviation mechanic, we had to replace our "big boy" tungsten drill bit (2 inches by 3 feet for drilling out titanium shims) around every other month from it breaking in half when some idiot dropped it. Did the shell enclose the projectile, or did you have to pray the tip didn't land sideways & snap off every time someone dropped one, or did the guys dealing with them come up with something clever the brass would have never thought of?

[@davidelliott5843]

These darts have a discarding case (sabot) that protects the dart during handling and flies off when fired.

[@muninrob]

@@davidelliott5843 I was worrying particularly about the part of the tip that sticks out the front of the sabot in the pictures of the rounds on display - that's the part I assume is somehow jacketed or protected from the kind of abuse GI's like me put them through loading them into (and throwing them out of) helicopters and C130's. P.S. If no one finds out about the extra round made of styrofoam, we'll keep bringing a case of beer with every delivery - dry countries SUCK.

[@oliverthomas7152]

@@muninrob the penetrator bar is tungsten alloy, not carbide. Tungsten/nickel/iron. I’m not sure what the windshield ie the tip is made from.

[@henryknepp]

Those du rounds could conceivably punch through a Iowa class battleships main armor belt. Now that is incredible.

[@graeme3023]

When it comes to deadly darts, it's important to keep them out of the black and into the red... nothing in this game for two in a bed... Can't beat a bit of Bully... 😁😁😁

[@_Matsimus_]

Graeme you shit pump lol

[@graeme3023]

@Matsimus haha!! You tankies and your obsession with penetrating vulnerable regions from behind... You should merge with RMs 🤣🤣🤣

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Put a shirt on Graham. Your moobs are showing. Spell your name right as well. Shambles.

[@I-02]

Now let's getting into a pissing contest between DM63A1, M829A4, and Vacuum-1. xD

[@vexxdk]

I have mixed feelings with "DU" rounds, I see the tactical benefit of it, hell I seen it with my own eyes but on the other hand, I also dont like the complications with "DU" killed wrecks and how toxic they are. After the was have been won allot more people have to go near and live with these wrecks.

[@terranempire2]

Tungsten is actually just as toxic to humans when inhaled.

[@Lobos222]

+CoyDK. No military is going to give up a tactical edge, specially when its cheaper as well. However, just because you have "nukes" doesnt mean you have to "nuke" everything. To use an analogy.

[@cpthrki5852]

Tungsten won't stay in your lungs and irradiate you though, I'd rather go for tungsten if I had to make the choice.

[@Sagebreaker]

Tungsten also stays in your lungs just like most other heavy metals, either way you still get lung cancer.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Looking up tungsten hazard... "Symptoms: irritation eyes, skin, respiratory system; diffuse pulmonary fibrosis; loss of appetite, nausea, cough; blood changes" www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0645.html So I don't think it is as bad as DU. for which "... studies using cultured cells and laboratory rodents continue to suggest the possibility of leukemogenic, genetic, reproductive, and neurological effects from chronic exposure." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17508699

[@quinnjackson9252]

I can't wait to watch these tear through Russian armor. 🇺🇦❤

[@maxace1078]

*JOHNNY LOAD THE THUMB TACK!*

[@normandong4479]

The depleted uranium dart used in tank rounds has been proven effective, and while there have been arguments about the “health or environmental impacts” we have to remember these darts are used only in a real war. In a real combat situation, a tank commander wants to know his or her tank is fully capable of engaging and beating an enemy. All war is brutal and harsh, and trying to tease out what is more humane or environmental when we talk of weapons of war seems to be idealistic. When this round was used in the first Gulf War, the results were stunning. In almost every engagement, the Iraqi tanks were blown apart or pierced. The very high velocity, high density and flat trajectory of this depleted uranium dart are huge advantages. Yes, it is harsh and the results would stun us, but this is why deterrence and diplomacy are always the best approaches.

[@buddywilliams5650]

Gulf War syndrome depleted uranium poisoning kidney failure all kinds of that elements. basically like Agent Orange for tanks.

[@interman7715]

Iraq is covered with radio active dust from du projectiles .

[@neon-john]

As a retired nuclear engineer who spent a significant part of my career working with U, I suggest you re-think your comment about the toxicity of U. I'll leave it to you to look up the LD50 does of the various heavy metals. U isn't at the top. If it were, I'd have been dead a long time ago. So would a large numbers of infantrymen who went poking around in killed enemy tanks in the middle east and afghanistan. The two main reasons to use DU are a) We have a huge stockpile of the stuff and not much of anything to do with it. and b) unlike Tungsten and the other very heavy metals, U is easy to machine. The machining must be done in an argon inert atmosphere because the stuff is so flammable. The government and contractors machine it in large glove-boxes. A private entity who has only a small amount of machining to do can simply wrap the machine tool in plastic sheeting and feed in the argon. U is spoken of as pyrophoric but not really. Pyrophorocity is the property of a substance to spontaneously ignite and burn in air. Potassium or white phosphorous for example. Uranium, along with aluminum and magnesium, would do so except that as any of these metals sit in air, an oxide shield forms. Aluminum's oxide is so tough and tenacious that it isn't considered flammable. Magnesium forms a less tenacious oxide layer so that it CAN be ignited in air. Once lit, it burns to completion and not much short of a Class D fire extinguisher will extinguish the fire. U also forms a tenacious oxide layer but as it grows, the oxide layer separates into thin, very sharp (ask me how I know!) oxide plains that provide just enough protection to prevent spontaneous combustion. Try to do anything with it and the situation is much different. Chuck a chunk up in a lathe and start making a cut. The swarf comes off as strings of burning metal. Get the workpiece too hot and it too will catch fire. U will react to nitrogen to form uranium nitride. It'll strip the oxygen out of water molecules. It'll strip the oxygen out of the carbonate charge used in dry chemical extinguisher. It'll do the same thing to sand. Only a Class D extinguisher which consists of very finely powdered copper can do the job on a small fire. Bigger fires are allowed to simply burn out.

[@miskatonic6210]

As you are a nuclear engineer from the US, I'm not impressed at all. Especially as a retired engineer. It's well known you guys didn't know shit about any nuclear risks.

[@toastbusters3897]

@@miskatonic6210 actually, it appears you dont know shit about what he is talking about. Do your research, this man is correct. By the way, I'm not even from the USA and I know that america has some of the strictest nuclear safety regulations in the world.

[@toastbusters3897]

@@semtheprogamingmaster8610 yeah, maybe about 60-70 years ago during the cold war. Ever since the cold war ended the US has been incredibly careful about disposing of nuclear waste. Nowadays all nuclear research that is done is observed under a microscope by the federal government to ensure that nothing goes wrong and that all safeguards are in place to protect the environment as much as possible.

[@billrich9722]

It doesn't matter how careful we are today. We enslaved black people at some point so we are the literal Hitler Devil or something.

[@billrich9722]

*shrug*

[@ThePaulv12]

Finally!; a video that delivers. Ethical considerations aside, that was fascinating. To the point, well researched, plain language, not overloaded with technical wank. Spoke of past present and future to give a context of The Now. It caused me to Google 'smoothbore' before continuing and that was most interesting also. On the basis of that I then Googled 'Rheinmetall Rh-120'. The pretty pictures contained within the vid caused me to pause the vid and study the pics and the reasons for DU. Those pictures graphically (literally and figuritively) illustrated the fin stabilized smoothbore DU projectile. The ballistic drop info was outstanding. Before this vid I had little interest in war army tanks with huge death cocks, and I still feel that way, but this vid caused me to come away satisfied, educated, informed. Really a top notch vid this. If only all the vids on YT were this good. I will indeed view the link you posted below - mostly just because you recommended it.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

Ahh, the journey from soy boy to man...

[@chamadda]

10:26 that soldier looks so proud of that patreon round xD

[@xcofcd]

The US unloaded several hundred tons of DU ammunition in Iraq alone for mostly no good reason (on not armored targets) with horrible consequences for the people there...

[@Ropetor]

In soviet russia we use satlinimiun more denser then a neutron star and its not toxic also used ib armor du rounds when shot at a russian tank just miss beacuse they dont want to get near stalinimium

[@jonny2954]

It is toxic. But only to capitalist scum.

[@shi01]

How many dissidents you have to send to gulag to produce 1kg of stalinium?

[@Ropetor]

@@shi01 1000 capitalist pigs per g

[@mulgerbill]

THat sounds like a good return on investment comrade, can I have a kilogramme?

[@georgebuller1914]

We in the West aren't worried - shit, you can't even spell it correctly........

[@wfim6522]

Is there a Stalker edition for these?

[@tahwnikcufos]

5:30 I'm surprised more people haven't commented about this; all ballistic projectiles are affected by windage and gravity - no matter how fast and/or brief the flight, they all fall, from the moment they leave the barrel.

[@JimBillyRayBob]

Yes, laser-like no drop over 2000m is complete BS.

[@queefyg490]

@@JimBillyRayBob I’m sure what they mean is the drop is negligible since the flight time is so short, but yes, there is no way it doesn’t drop at all 🤣

[@renedosr]

g=32feet/s/s (acceleration due to gravity) Dart drop = 0.5 x g x t^2 According to @kirklamb3270 we can assume 7,500fps velocity. At this velocity, it will take 1 sec to go 2.286km (7500ft), and the dart will drop 16ft. Definitely not negligible. Even at 229m, the dart will drop around 2 inches. It's definitely not a laser, but the firing computer can easily calculate the drop if there is an accurate range finder (which there is). Assuming that the dart spins, the computer also needs to calculate the effects of precession and the Coriolis effect. That's a lot harder math, but easy enough for the computer. They also need to account for air friction and they probably have an experimental calibration factor taking into account air pressure and temperature. But the computer can handle all that.

[@bradnail99]

The dart doesn’t spin. These are fired from smooth bore guns because spin stabilization is ineffective on long, skinny projectiles. The tail fins perform the job of stabilization in flight.

[@tahwnikcufos]

@@bradnail99 Meaning what in the context of this discussion? I think you're missing the point.

[@Kumquat_Lord]

For those wondering, DU shells are NOT RADIOACTIVE. The real danger is that it is a heavy metal (like lead and osmium) and is rather toxic to the human body as a result.

[@mnlaaf9340]

The least of your worries is RadPois

[@kirklamb3270]

I actually worked on tests of du tank rounds during their development in the late 80's. We stepped them up to over 7500 fps and shot many tank turrets. I like to think our tests are why the Gulf War went the way it did!! We also tested Russian ammo for the same reasons!! We knew exactly their capabilities going in!!

[@kirstyblack3432]

lol thats funny. you're a funny guy.

[@kirklamb3270]

@@kirstyblack3432 What's funny?? It's the truth.

[@TheNinjaDC]

The big advantage depleted uranium shells have over anti-tank rocket systems, is it is pretty much impossible to intercept and fully stop a DU dart as it is such a highly concentrated mass moving at ridiculous speeds. Basic physics are at play here. It needs an equal force to stop it, and active protective systems relying on explosive shrapnel shells/rockets simply don't provide enough kinetic energy to stop the DU dart. The same idea is why Pk 1 & 2 Patriot missile defense systems suck at intercepting higher density (than air craft) ballistic missiles, as the the anti-air shrapnel missiles struggle against the higher density of missiles vs aircraft. Future Patriot systems moved on to direct intercepting missiles to fix this. Contrast that to man portable anti-tank rockets. Their slower, fatter explosive warheads are more vulnerable to active protective systems that rely on shrapnel explosive devices. Not to mention their electronics are vulnerable to electronic warfare systems.

[@Dimetropteryx]

"active protective systems relying on explosive shrapnel shells/rockets simply don't provide enough kinetic energy to stop the DU dart" They don't stop it literally, but they do reduce its effectiveness, preferably to a significant degree. You don't need to destroy a projectile to make it ineffective.

[@TheNinjaDC]

@@Dimetropteryx I said fully stop. Yes, in theory they can still interrupt the dart, and significantly alter the angle/effectiveness, but it still is going to hit and hit hard. But that is besides my main paint. In comparison to anti tank rockets, DU darts are astronomically harder to stop with an active protective system. Anti tank rockets are fatter, slower (often sub sonic or low super sonic), have a large heat signature, and are full of delicate electronics. DU darts are smaller, denser, MOVE AT ALMOST HYPER SONIC SPEEDS, and have no electronic or mechanical components to be damaged or misdirected or tricked.

[@Dimetropteryx]

Might hit and will hit less hard. And since it relies on its own structural integrity to do its job, anything that compromises that will affect its performance significantly. That it's harder to do is not really interesting or relevant, especially since there are already claims of functioning systems and it's just a matter of continuing to develop a concept that by now could be considered proven. Designers are already close, there is no reason to assume that success isn't imminent.

[@jonny2954]

You can't entirely stop a APFSDS, but reduce its effectivness drastically. Launcher based systems like Iron Fist detonate their interceptor in a distance of 50-80 cm from the APFSDS, with the goal to tilt it. A tilt of only 10° reduces armor penetration about 50%. But since it's really hard for a launcher based systems to be that fast and accurate, they are generally not very effective against KE. Distributed systems like Rheinmetall ADS don't aim to only tilt the rod, but to shatter and break it. That's more effective. The reaction time is not a problem either.

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

Agreed. Try guiding an anti-tank missile at a target moving between tall buildings or big trees, the missile loses it's window of opportunity very quickly, but a 120mm gun will reach it quickly and pass through a building or a tree if necessary, what would cause a missile to explode prematurely. Also, in the case of wire guided missiles, which are limited to the speed at which the wire can unspool and have very little chance at winning a war in the woods of Europe or the Jungles of Asia...cuz the trees would get in the way & mess up the wires.

[@kameronjones7139]

I understand your point on atgms but it is honestly a toss up. With APS atgms are almost certainly not going to be able to hit veichals from any angle. At least the du shells have a better chance of surviving it.

[@SpardauDebesi]

APS sistems are only good against few atgm's if u spam the tank with atgm's APS sistem will deal with first 3 or 2 missiles and the 4 one will hit. If it penetraits is another question.

[@DisplayLine6.13.9]

Karolis Lukosevicius But you won't be able to fire 4 ATGMs at once from a man portable system so the advantage would still be on the defending side.

[@SpardauDebesi]

@@DisplayLine6.13.9 Yes if there's only one at team but usually it's not. it's cold war tactics spam as much as possible. Also if have one at team with atgm's there's possibly thet u have targets with rpg and those can be intersepted by APS.

[@DisplayLine6.13.9]

Karolis Lukosevicius Yeah, but you are still only getting 1/4 of the killing potential that you would have had if APS weren't a thing. Remember tanks also usually don't operate alone. So the advantage is still on the defending side.

[@SpardauDebesi]

@@DisplayLine6.13.9 My point was that APS can't protect the tank like some "god mod" shield against atgm's and rpg's or if it can its for short time.

[@SteveMHN]

When I was a kid I used to think depleted uranium rounds meant tank ammo that detonated a nuclear blast and that's why they were controversial. What a moron I was. lol

[@SteveMHN]

Judean People's Front: Yeah, I know that now, I was talking about my dumbness when I was a child.

[@SerangelROM]

Judean People's Front DU was never used as nuclear fuel. DU is a by product of making nuclear fuel by removing the radioactive parts from uranium (creating DU) and concentrating it in other uranium, this is called enrichment. DU is inert and has about as much radiation as other heavy metals. What makes it toxic is the fact that it is a heavy metal like lead. How ever the amount used compared to natural heavy metals in the ground is extremely small. As far as birth defects are concerned, that has been happening since long before the US showed up. This is because people in the middle east have been inbreeding through rape for generations.

[@bru_5741]

It kinda did inside the tank that got hit by it since the crews inside just get one ticket to another dimension

[@Mr-Ad-196]

@@SteveMHN hey that sound awesome, probability in some sci-fi faction with space ship firing nuclear warhead at enemy ship.

[@smokeypuppy417]

the first clip is the tank range for camp burhering in kuwait. been there and wont go back again.

[@blatherskite9601]

Kuwait is dump.

[@AdventureTimeWithAsh]

:( Depleted Uranium makes the water and dirt toxic and unusable :( large quantity been used in iraq

[@MrBirdonawire]

Awesome as always Matt! Great explanation of this fantastic munition and it’s capabilities. And thank you Matt, for finally giving KZbin, a video that does not go off on the mandatory tangent, detailing the possible harm of DU.

[@Captain.J.Dreadful]

Once again great informal video! Learned a lot more about this kind of round and what DU is all about. It’s insane how powerful it is.

[@andpeeps1570]

What I learned from this video: All tanks are considered beautiful. I feel I must agree. :-)

[@Life_Is_A...]

Video discussing the effectiveness of depleted uranium in tank rounds: 970,000 views. Video discussing the cancerous effects and war crimes of using said rounds in iraq: 900 views.

[@bavarianpotato]

Link?

[@Sawer]

I was always wondering about this, thanks!

[@dbmail545]

Answered most of my questions about this munition. Thanks.

[@andrisrubins8022]

Please make a video about MRK-3 unmanned combat vehicle or T-15 heavy infantry fighting vehicle.

[@bru_5741]

When the russian copy and past3 they old ww2 t35 and name it t15

[@Weltschmerzzzz]

Hi Matsimus can you do video about Georgian APC Didgori

[@geniushkennard1148]

Loudest thing i ever heard was the Sabot round from my old M1A1-i should have won a Tank Navigator status or award but i had a drill sergeant like Hitler that didn't want me to succeed as a soldier!

[@kagendranusantara]

High Explosive Anti Tank

[@nukenvy2]

8:48 That antenna is annoying me so much right now! 🤬

[@ewc58]

So glad I found this channel, love your work. Thanks Mat.

[@ragoonsgg589]

Ugh I love your videos so much mat. True quality military content. So interesting and somehow quenching my big bullet curiosities

[@vegass04]

Matsimus, come on man... Active protection systems or APS like Armata or trophy are useless against the kinetic warheads like a depleted uranium sabot round. APS is designed to knock out relatively slow moving ATGMs.

[@corsayr9629]

I wonder what it would have been like to be at the meeting where someone said for the first time, "Hey, we just came up with a way to make the most powerful tank armor penetrating rounds out of garbage."

[@MrSmithwayne]

absolute insanity anymore, this push to the envelope of who can punch through my big ass armor. Everything being fielded anymore, army, air force, navy, space its all 95-100% accurate, 100% lethal. I fear the future in 20 years.

[@BeKindToBirds]

In my (educated) opinion, the shock of weapon advancement is going to be greater than it was in the world wars. People could not comprehend the machine gun and artillery, people could not comprehend mechanized warfare, and the next major global conflict is going to show those technologies at full maturation and unnatural speed. We're like the fish swimming in the ocean and the machines of war are the bird killing us from a dimension we cannot understand. It's going to be bad.

[@Cartoonman154]

KZbin "Depleted Uranium Firings West Cumbria" test footage on reducing DU discharge.

[@Spaceman404.]

A small conical object made with one of the densest materials known to man with a very aerodynamic shape with a very pointy nose moving at mach 5 can kill just about anything

[@rondohunter8966]

I have a particle accelerator with a barrel and laser sights. A proton moving at near light speed has LOTS of mass. Will obliterate anything it hits.

[@_Matsimus_]

Wanna hang out for future live stream interactions, gaming and chats with me!! Come to Twitch and remember to follow! 🎮 Twitch: www.twitch.tv/matsimus_9033

[@samuelparker9882]

Matsimus Your videos are well informed, sarcastically funny at times, but; all around informational and well produced. I've learned something new, even if it's small information or a fact from the use of the weapon system ,from each video I've watched! Good Stuff my man. PEACE AND POWER TO ALL!

[@willk2623]

Matsimus dis dood reading straight off of the guardians report on this topic. Damn it I didn’t realize this till now

[@dennisortega7321]

Matsimus M256 120MM It’s not a gun, it’s a cannon therefore no riffing.

[@zeljkodejanovic8786]

This uranium depleted ammunition is a crime against humanity and should be strictly prohibited by the Geneva Convention. That ammunition has long-lasting consequences, and where the disease has been used, cancer has quadrupled.

[@zeljkodejanovic8786]

It is enough to inhale one particle to get cancer.

[@1joshjosh1]

I liked thinking about this stuff before the internet existed. Now everybody knows.

[@bantalee2002]

cat is out of the bag now man. it means they have found something far deadlier and is feeding everyone this antiquated line of bs. lol

[@Turmanation5]

wow epic

[@janskacel9480]

Hi there. Sorry to be nitpicky, but Uranium is not the densest naturally occurring element. That honor goes to Osmium. Uranium has density 19.1 g/cm3 while Osmium has 22.59 g/cm3. That being said, Osmium round would be very expensive, while depleted uranium is basically waste.

[@bb3xhrhj]

Pretty sure Osmium would be shite for penetration. It's really brittle.

[@stevetheveteran]

I thought he said the heaviest naturally occurring element, which would indeed be uranium, while osmium would be the most dense.

[@janskacel9480]

@@stevetheveteran That is exactly it. Osmium, while rare, is a naturally occurring element. We mine it, not make it like plutonium for example.

[@exhoost_fume4646]

Could you make a vid on the colt c8nld and c7nld

[@ApplyWithCaution]

... all very interesting but you seem to have totally overlooked the British contribution ... from the early 70s the British have used 120 rifled tank guns firing kinetic shot, in contrast to the HEAT ammunition favoured by the US ... as a serving soldier I took delivery of the first shipments of DU APFSDS ammunition to the British Army in 1984 ... ... further more on the Chieftain Mk3/2 with the extended graticule 9 dot site the direct fire range of APDS went from 1790m out to 3000 metres with tungsten cores, one if which I have had turned into the most amazing set of darts

[@michealnagy5763]

Good stuff! I am the guy that tested it!

[@Lobos222]

The environmental problem with DU ammo isnt DU ammo, but the A10 30mm 4500rpm gun and it being used with DU ammo all over the place when the DU capabilities were more or less only warranted during the Iraqi invasion. MBT/IFV engagements impact are minimal (few areas, fewer rounds) and very localized to given areas, but A10 DU impact on the other hand is all over the place when DU is used for simplistic tasks like taking out a infantry foxhole or similar. Thereby having a unnecessary spread of DU.

[@epion660]

While I disagree with a lot of controversy and support DU ammo, yeah, the A-10 spreading it as default ammo is a bit much.

[@Lobos222]

@@epion660 If you ask me. DU ammo should be a wartime only type ammo. Because DU has a negative impact. Its not directly that DU is radioactive that is the problem because the levels are so low (ref Abrams with DU layered armor, that limit service years on such vehicle). Lead is poisonous as well, but you can still hold it a few times during your life. The problem is prolonged exposure. For example, everyone today has micro plastic going through ones system. Effects? Unknown. However, if those micro particles are DU. Then even the low level radioactivity becomes dangerous and can cause allot of shit. Just like lead and why humanity more or less stopped having lead based fuel.

[@epion660]

@@Lobos222 I agree. I feel that normal rules don't fully apply during war. I hate the modern sentiment that war shouldn't hurt people. I think that DU really should only be used like APCR was during WW2, if a bit more. In WW2, tanks that had APCR only had a few rounds of it. If you only had a few rounds of it, you'd save it for tanks. Then, when you have to shoot at things that aren't tanks, you can use HE/HESH/HEAT or regular APFSDS. Honestly it's just silly to equip them only with DU and an explosive.

[@devinwilliams3489]

@@epion660 they only did that because of cost the DU round in the a-10 Is APCR

[@epion660]

@@devinwilliams3489 I think you may have missed my point. I'm saying that DU rounds should be used in tanks like APCR used to be. Come across a T-80 or T-90? Load the DU. Come across a third-world nation's T-55? Just slap it in the face with standard Tungsten APCR. Make it so it's not being flung at everything senselessly, but it does have a purpose. I get that tanks were not all equipped with APCR as standard for mainly cost purposes, but the point still stands. Use it rarely when needed, not constantly when it's too much, or rather wasteful. And the whole issue of the A-10 rounds, they're still using so much of it at once. It could possibly be put in every few rounds, rather than every round. If that's already the case (I'm not exactly sure what the ammo belts consist of) then I don't have much of a problem.

[@cheeseburger549]

I will now put a RAILGUN on my tank in the future😂😂

[@bogwin9621]

My dad did work on the depleted uranium round. The shape is the trick. At high speed it makes a jet of melted metal at super sonic speed inside the tank hit. The thing turns into liquid and melts the target metal impacted, everything inside is shredded. The ammunition also is hit by high speed melted splash and helps to keep the suffering inside the tank on the short side. 😁

[@harri9885]

Banned in Europe for years. All EU armies use Tungsten penetrators. Even the French in peace time :)

[@_Matsimus_]

If you liked this you're going to love this!! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ7GYpuuh8eVms0

[@TheKeithvidz]

In Syria right now US forces admitted breaking law by using them. Iraq was poisoned.

[@tireiron5546]

TheKeithvidz the only thing they used these on was a goat , a wall , and other tests

[@TheKeithvidz]

educate yourself @@tireiron5546

[@tireiron5546]

TheKeithvidz ok fine let me do research

[@tireiron5546]

TheKeithvidz did some research both us and uk forces have used du shells ALTHOUGH there are no accounts of radiation poisoning from them therefore making your opinion obsolete

[@jonshaw840]

When the tankers use DU the enemies DI

[@kolinmartz]

2:04 you’re making it sound like the m60 has all 62rounds in the turret.

[@c300108]

Interesting video. Thanks for the effort to make it. A few physics corrections: 1. Naturally occurring Uranium starts out at 0.72% U235, 0.01%U234, and 99.27% U238. Your graphic states that depleted uranium is 89% U238. I think you derive this because Uranium is enhanced to 11% U235 for use in fission reactors. DU projectiles are alloyed with other metals. Depleted Uranium has to be 99.27% U238 minimum before being alloyed. 2. Stating that a projectile has no drop over 2 miles would be disputed by Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion. Gravity cannot be erased from any moving (or static)body on the earth’s surface. The drop may be small, but it can never be zero.

[@Quicksilver_Cookie]

Depleted uranium rounds vs enriched stalinium armor. Discuss.

[@porscheguy09]

I wonder how a DU round does against the modern explosive armor or reactive armor? A lot of countries are using some form of reactive armor these days.

[@slimjim7411]

It does very well reactive armor is more for missiles, and rockets than tank shells.

[@sethl6626]

Lucky Us (Us being Americans), the Europeans and Australians (Maybe the Brits to an extent?) avoid DU like the Plague. I’d much rather sit in a tank that had freaking Uranium for armor than just steel-based composites.

[@David-eh9le]

Seth L it works aa giod if not better. Chally 2, Leo2, Merkava... all of them tanks that are considered equal if not superior to the Abrams, especially tge armor of the chally 2

[@David-eh9le]

placeholder can u name me an incident where it e er got penetrated? The chally has way superior armour to any other mbt that is combat proven

[@David-eh9le]

placeholder and it does weight as much as an Abrams

[@David-eh9le]

placeholder yeah the leclerc really is a beast in protection/ weight (coming from a German). But the main comment was about the Abrams and how "invincible" its armour is. We see a lot of burning Abrams in the Internet, and the only destroyed Chally was by friendly fire in a 1 in 1000 shot.

[@David-eh9le]

placeholder as i said the only destroyed chally 2 was with a 1/1000 shot. But yes, calling a tank invincible is one of the most stupid things to say. Well all of these tanks, abrams, Leo2, Chally 2, leclerc etc have great armour and as a civilian we will never know which tank has the most effective.

[@dexterplameras3249]

At 60% radioactivity of natural uranium, 2000 metric tons concentrated DU at key battle sites in Iraq (battle of 73 easting, highway of death), its after effects is dangerous leading to deformities in newborns and cancer in the general population. If the US were to have a tank battle in LA or New York, there would be an uproar in its use. But its never going to happen because every battle the US fights will be on foreign soil. This is why the Europeans have opted for tungsten because any war fought will be in their own backyard. Imagine if these rounds were to be used in Ukraine. What kind of after effects would there be on the general population.

[@davegrenier1160]

"Flat-shooting" rounds (whether from a tank gun or a rifle) are not immune to the effects of gravity. Gravity works on all projectiles as soon as they exit the bore (and are no longer supported by the barrel). The apparent "flatness" of the trajectory comes from a projectile's speed. All other considerations being equal, any two projectiles flying through the air both drop at the same rate - gravity effects all objects equally. So let's imagine the comparison of two projectiles, one traveling at 10,000 fps and the other at 2,000 fps. (We'll ignore velocity loss due to drag to make this simple.) If they are both fired at a target 10,000 ft away, the first round gets there in one second, while the latter round gets there in five seconds. That means that gravity acts on the first round for only one second, but acts on the second round for five seconds. If both are fired from level barrels (that is, no hold-over for range) the first projectile falls approx. 16 ft from line-of-sight while the second falls a whopping 402 ft! So the hold-over (to put it precisely on target) for the first projectile is minor, while the hold-over for the second is considerable. (This also greatly increases the flight time of the second projectile because it has to travel a much longer, arcing path. The first projectile must also arc - no projectile actually "shoots flat" - but the increase in distance traveled, and therefore flight time, is minimal. This creates the impression the former "shoots flat" while the latter needs a large hold-over because it does not "shoot flat.") The faster the projectile, the less flight time to target. The less flight time to a target, the less time gravity exerts its pull on the projectile, and therefore the less it will drop before it hits its target. Also note that after one second of flight time, both of these projectiles (ignoring other effects as if fired in a vacuum) if fired from level barrels will fall exactly the same distance from line-of-sight after one second (and will both eventually hit the ground at the same time if fired from barrels the same height above level ground). To put it another way, any two similar projectiles (again ignoring effects other than gravity), when fired from a level barrel, will both begin to fall as soon as they leave their barrels, and will both fall at the same rate regardless of their velocities. If the two projectiles postulated above both hit the ground after one second of flight (i.e., they hit the ground at the same time), the first does so 10,000 ft from where it was launched and the second lands 2,000 ft from its launch site. (If you have a barrel that's level to the ground, you can get a very close approximation of how long any projectile fired from that barrel - at any velocity - will remain in flight if fired over flat terrain. Take a bullet or nut or hammer - something dense that won't be affected by air resistance - hold it at the height of the barrel's muzzle, and drop it. The time the object spends falling is the same amount of time it will take gravity to act on the projectile coming out of the barrel. All other things being equal, two objects dropped from the same height will both hit the ground at the same time because gravity acts equally upon all objects over time.) Bullets, artillery rounds, and rocks are ballistic projectiles. They are not flying objects, they are falling objects, and they are all subject to the same forces when they are launched through the air and in a gravity well.

[@jaydeister9305]

"I went to a couple of those wars."

[@mickvanderh.2948]

Maximus I wanted to hear the ethical side of using du. Because the military it's not a huge problem but for civilians it is there are thousands of cases of people living in a former warzone geting cancer or birth defects

[@mickvanderh.2948]

@@a_randy well alot of people are scrapers but i don't see whats wrong wirh that

[@tommeakin1732]

Why would the land of the free care about any of that? Who gives a fuck about the health of the people you're invading 4000 miles from your own country? When you know that every war you're going to fight in the future is going to be an aggressive war, initiated by you; why not use DU? I mean unless you're planning on living there yourself

[@lukalazic7941]

yeah, tell that to people in Serbia Iraq and Libya where DU ammo was used in tens of tons... where since the end of the wars kids are born without legs and arms and mothers becoming unable to give birth and overall 150% increased cancer growth.

[@xXevilsmilesXx]

@@lukalazic7941 shouldn't have let their country get to the point the poisons of war would come there.

[@isaacmcmanus3666]

@Stewart James So to innocent civilians your just gonna say screw you we kill you out of our choice? Ever heard of how it's a war crime to intentionally kill civilians?

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Early Boeing 747s used depleted uranium counterweights. If the aircraft crashed there was as risk of radioactive contamination to the persons, wreckage, the crash-site. This first became widely known after a 747 crash in Amsterdam in 1992 when crash investigators noticed high radioactivity on the crash debris. . (In those days airliner crashes were more frequent than now. )

[@dueymoar7767]

What do you think of those 2 new Boeing liners going down?

[@loxep915]

The Funfact of all Umunition is that in near eastern conflict the US used em also like today in Ukraine where the dust poised the crew the enemy and the environment! Uncle Sam kill his own military in longterm😂😂😂😂

[@XxPlayMakerxX131]

Darts? They Turn Humans into a liquefied version Scary stuff

[@amorembalming]

Pink mist.

[@kevinlutz2679]

How shall we get rid of 5,000 ton of DU? Put it anti-tank ammo!!

[@hike3]

imagine seeing one of these stuck on your “wall” 2 feet off of target

[@nemanume]

Serve you're country by standing in a small place with some low radioactive ammo. You don't even need to go in combat.

[@mikhailalexandrovichrimsky5501]

Privet Western Partners/Counterparts! "...at least 90% KILL rate aimed for..."! Wow! Let's not disable the Killing Machine (Tank), but those operating it! Imagine opening top hatch, and look at the daddy of 2 kids (even western counterparts) minced up with body parts found even behind in storage bays and engines! The A-10 also use DU and we as well, but we normally target engines, hoping tank operators drop down out of Turret, because next target is blowing Gun turret off from tank's superstructure (only if "enemy" tank can still fire after engines are destroyed). You know Matt, you said something which I can also relate to, that is where you said she's just a *beauty...,* I look in awe at our SU-30, 35, 57, and top-class MiGs, and the way pilots dance and play with their "Ladies" are *beautifully crafted machines* (even F-22, B-2 Spirit, our white Swans etc), but then I'm reminded that those Ladies are what my pilot friends call their Mermaids...for they are extremely sexy machines to behold...until their fangs come out and they can kill thousands with *one* strike (depending on the munitions)! so, at the Airshows one can truly say: What a "View to a Kill"! С уважением Commander Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov (FSB: Research, Information & Internet (Social Media)) ФЕДЕРАЛЬНАЯ СЛУЖБА БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ

[@diazemap]

Matsimus: Uranium, the heaviest naturally occurring material on earth Iridium: Am I a joke to you? Osmium: Hold my beer.

[@somegermandude4335]

I love how the first volley before your intro sounded like small arms fire (In comparison to the size of the tanks cannon)

[@CocoaBeachLiving]

Great presentation, thanks for the clear description of these types of munitions.

[@cnlbenmc]

Now this is what I call silver bullets, they even set the inside of vehicles on fire!

[@tob2603]

Like tungsten can't do that (that's called internal shattering, which is caused by shattering components in the tank which got shoted by that shell)

[@billrich9722]

"... Which got shoted by that shell". A more cleverer comment was never saided. Tungsten doesn't catch fire when powderized and exposed to oxygen. What you are describing is a secondary ignition caused by what the tungsten impacts, not by the tungsten itself. It is not the same thing at all.

[@galaxymaster]

Technologically it is interesting to see a even harder material, but the moral part just can't be overlooked. War is the darkest part of humanity and might end us all one day, but atomic warfare adds a new low to it. I love tank tech for what it can do, but when you take of the rose tinted glasses it's often about young people killing eachother because some old people have a verbal fight over something. What china, russia and even america are doing (attacking a country) is disgusting and needs to stop. Weapons should be for defense only. We really need a world wide contract for that.

[@Underground247]

How is this not illegal? The radioactive clouds were said to be able to travel for a mile in the video when they hit a tank. How do they mitigate the radiation exposure for the troops in the DU armoured tank with DU shells.

[@deplorabledave1048]

These are OK, but Lawn Darts (Jarts) are banned. Go figure.

[@ussling]

My family had Jarts when I was a child in the early 1970s. We played with them often in the summer. We survived. Go figure.