Eh, they'll just introduce a new block variant that counters the jamming.
The arms race continues!
Considering the Cold War shtick nowadays, it would be dumb of them not to.
If you swap them places, USA would have done the same.
This is pretty common right now. Tons of groups like Hezbollah were capturing Abrams tanks from the Iraqi army, and have been reselling them to the Russians.
I'd imagine if an Amata tank somehow ended up in Ukraine, Americans would be called in too salvage it.
only thing to note there really is that the tanks the iraqi army uses are export variants and dont have the depleted uranium composite armor that makes the abrams quite interesting.
If this were the 80's or 90's I'd be more concerned. But whole lot of western nations use guided munitions and cruise missiles too. Them saying they, "REVERSED ENGINEERD, CAPTURED" US weapons is basically saying they're finally about to start using guided munitions? Wowzer, you took one the absurd amount of tomahawks we have at our disposal and even these still managed to get passed your ADVANCED AIR-DEFENSE SYSTEMS. If Russia is planning on developing counter measures to act against some of our stuff, that will just mean we'll make better guided munitions, I mean it took them this song to some how get a hold of one.
Capturing an Abrams again, isn't some massive special task, especially after how Iraq handled ISIS. But it's not something to be concerned about because as stated, these are the export models we sell to other countries. They're missing tons of the more secretive gear that goes in and on the tank itself, noticeably the DU armor. Even w/o the stuff it's a good tank, but it requires you to be working the US to get the parts to maintain and operate it. Oh yes, even ISIS knew this because they found out shitty fuel or diesel won't make these things run like any Russian tank, so they ditched them. Hezbollah COULD use the metal for something esle I guess, but otherwise you have a paper weight.
Only took them 30 years.
Is Depleted Uranium used because Uranium has a very high mass for its volume, or is there another reason?
Mass and density, yeah. Makes for great armor.
It's also pretty hard and has some properties in the crystal structures in the metal that make for some really tough armor. DU was used in AP projectiles due to how the tip would shear material off in a way that sharpens the point, as opposed to dulling and blunting it. Plus it is incredibly flammable when in dust form, giving an incendiary effect. Then, you have a tertiary effect of the dust and burned oxides being inhaled by nearby survivors that poisons them to death months or years later.
the dust and burned oxides being inhaled by nearby survivors that poisons them to death months or years later.
that's insidious
along with the long term contamination from the use of DU munitions in the middle east
DU is great, id use it if i was a military
Question - How is depleted uranium different from Lead? If I'm not mistaken, that's what uranium decays into, right?
That definitely sounds like a war crime to me.
Pretty blatantly bullshit claim, anyone who knows anything about TLAMs (including Russian Intelligence) knows they don't need GPS or external comms to function, EW against an inflight TLAM achieves very little and it's very unlikely they recovered anything worth while outside the melted turbofan and airframe pieces they displayed. I'd be willing to bet this is probably just something they'll make that doesn't really do anything so they can sell it to the MoD so Putins buddies can scam the goverent for more money
I'd wager the chance of you being near an impact zone of a DU penetrator hitting something hard enough (ie, tonk) to cause it to dust up, then inhale it, and survive whatever conflict fuckstorm you got caught in, are kind of minimal.
It's more a threat to your own troops later occupying areas where it might have dusted, and even then the results are still under debate (see: Gulf War, Afghan War, etc.) It's more of an environmental crime than a war one. You're not going to stop anyone from using it, however, because the result is far more capable armor and penetrators than you could ever manage with Tungsten or whatever else. With ERA, Composites, and APS Systems still being hot shit, no one's going back to HEAT (chemical, no DU) ammo for tank on tank action anytime soon.
It's good to know that it's likely not going to happen but the post definitely made it sound like that was a welcome side effect of using them.
Like "oh and if you don't get 'em, they'll still die randomly years later!"
DU is twice as dense as lead
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