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    Quote Originally Posted by discovery1
    Amorphous tungsten indeed has many of the properties of depleted Uranium, as does Nanocrystalline tungsten materials (which, by the way, is superior in density and structural integrity to amorphous tungsten). One property it doesn't have is low cost. Pouring and milling and forging the penetrators would cost a fortune (it's not just a simple spike, it has be to milled into a single big crystal in order to go through the adiabatic shear banding, otherwise it would simply snap in two after twisting around a couple of times in the armor.)

    http://ciar.org/ttk/mbt/papers/symp_19/VM05(913.pdf

    Nanocrystalline tungsten for you. God I love that stuff, especially with the correct type of jacketing.
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    Default Re: Depleted Uranium

    Quote Originally Posted by DemonArchangel
    Amorphous tungsten indeed has many of the properties of depleted Uranium, as does Nanocrystalline tungsten materials (which, by the way, is superior in density and structural integrity to amorphous tungsten). One property it doesn't have is low cost. Pouring and milling and forging the penetrators would cost a fortune (it's not just a simple spike, it has be to milled into a single big crystal in order to go through the adiabatic shear banding, otherwise it would simply snap in two after twisting around a couple of times in the armor.)

    http://ciar.org/ttk/mbt/papers/symp_19/VM05(913.pdf

    Nanocrystalline tungsten for you. God I love that stuff, especially with the correct type of jacketing.
    Hm, good point. And good reply too. The link doesn't work btw.


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    argh, sorry about the link, i'll redo it later.
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    Wait, wait...you're saying that bullets should be banned because they're hazardous to your health? Essentially what we're talking about is lead and even standard lead is poisonous to life. One of the elements uranium decomposes to is lead so isn’t all lead depleted uranium? It's just absurd that anyone would think of banning DU. Why don't we just ban rocket propellant and gunpowder because it's toxic if eaten and bad for the environment?

    Yes, well anyway, another good reason to develop directed energy weapons (free electron or otherwise).


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