Well - it causes more pain and suffering in the long run. So... I'm opposed to it.

I think it is a criminal thing to do,what is the military thinking ,or are they not thinking at all.

DU is a heavy metal used in bunker-busting bombs because it has a high density. It is not radioactive. There are toxic risks associated with any heavy metal.

They were a necessary evil in a world where tank armor was becoming harder and harder to penetrate reliably using shaped charge warheads on tank main gun rounds. HEAT (High Explosive, Anti-Tank) rounds use shaped charge technology to focus most of the explosive force in the warhead into a very, very small area, sometimes as small as a cigar in diameter. However, as armor improved, the thin jet of superheated gas became less able to penetrate and guarantee a first-shot kill. In the dynamic battlefield of the US Cold War-era Air-Land Battle Doctrine, mobility was the key to winning battles. You could not afford to keep engaging the same tank with HEAT rounds to ensure a kill, especially since a kill was not always obvious. HESH (High Explosive-Squash Head) rounds were offered as an alternative. The HESH round had a nose of soft lead, which would deform against the armor of the target tank before exploding. The wider area of shock transmission would make pieces of the interior armor flake off at terribly high speeds, much like tossing a fragmentation grenade inside the tank), and kill the crew. HESH kills were VERY hard to verify visually, so HESH was generally discarded in favor of HEAT or APFSDS (Armor Piercing, Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot), commonly called Sabot rounds, tipped with depleted uranium. Sabot rounds used a small dart of depleted uranium encased in a plastic carrier called a sabot. The full 120mm diameter of the tank main gun would be filled with the sabot at firing, using all of the pressure the round generated on ignition. The sabot would peel off upon leaving the gun tube, making it possible to hurl the DE dart at incredible speeds. The high density of DE coupled with the very high speed of the round gave it amazing kinetic energy. This high KE value would usually knock turrets off upon impact, confirming the kill. Lacking a turret coming off, tank crews could be reasonably confident that the target tank was dead judging by the energy transferred upon impact. Nothing else could do the job of DE in the tank-on-tank battlefield.

Yes.

I think it does a very good job. I also think the resulting dust is very harmful to anyone that comes into contact with it. its use should be restricted.

From what I have read it has made all most all of Iraq and Afghanistan radioactive toxic with a half life of thousands of years. this will effect the health of all those there for many generations.

Very heavy and mostly harmless as long as you don't chew on it. I worry more about the Millions of AA batteries that litter the landscape from the military equipment used.

Whats to think? It's effective against armored targets. +5