-=> Quoting Don Shoebridge to John Sandow <=-
 Jury fun end so I rise
 JS>On a related subject, one of the guys I worked with was in the navy for 4
 JS>years.  I forget what his job was, but it was not a metalurgist.  He was
 JS>describing the Phlanx ship defense system that uses a 20mm vulcan cannon,
 JS>and informed me that the gun used 'depleted titanium rounds'.  Must be
 JS>heck on the barrel walls, eh?  :-)
 DS> Actualy, the 20mm DU round has a thick jacket to protect the barrel. 
 DS> I beleive the jacket is aluminum.  Their made using *spent uranium fuel
Hmm, Aluminum flashes at high velocity, IE: friction (Thermite).
Winchester uses aluminum jackets in the Silvertips only in the slow
moving bullets.  Do the coat the aluminum with something?
Sure, you can have DU rounds but not HP's or SP's for war....
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