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Forget Sharks with lasers on their heads... How about radioactive tanks

Sure Russians sell scrap steel to China, China sends it here.

 
Sure Russians sell scrap steel to China, China sends it here.


How nice. Now your pet can have a night light bowl to eat out of when its dark.
 
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Every Iraqui tank destroyed by a US tank was irradiated by the depleted uranium penetrator. Same with tanks in Bosnia. SF did a lot of Battlefield Damage Assessment and a lot of guys suffered health issues. Fully 10% of my SF Company has died from cancer, not to mention other bizarre ailments. My best friend developed Guillain-Barre syndrome while still on active duty.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/deple...ive-contamination-in-iraq-an-overview/5605215
 
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ok, all joking aside, but if the 'radioactive military vehicles' have entered the scrap stream..... where/what/how is it found, dealt with or whatever?

It's not just our cars that are made out of steel, but our soup-cans are too. And a bazillion other things and fasteners. I don't know about there, but any scrapyard around here has huge "radioactivity detectors" that the whole load goes through, before the truck enters the yard.

But any scrapyard around here has very FEW (if any, ever) tanks or other military vehicles as a load. But we're only at the center of the North-Western Hemisphere.
 
That has to be one of the most whacked weapons ever made.

No, I think that honor goes to the Davy Crockett mortar. It was a nuclear mortar and it came in two sizes, big and bigger. A nuclear mortar. And I've seen 'em, up close, at the infantry museum. It's like a 9' tube that fires a fatman looking warhead.
 
That has to be one of the most whacked weapons ever made.
Not as bad as the Navy's nuclear ASROC launcher. If the ship was steaming at Flank III, and fired the rocket 180 deg aft at maximum range the ship would still be caught in the unsurvivable blast radius. Only if the torpedo kept running directly aft for 2nm could the ship survive it's own weapon.

I always thought that was a retarded weapon, and I don't think they were carried for very long, but it was still on ESWS when I served in the '90s.
 
No, I think that honor goes to the Davy Crockett mortar. It was a nuclear mortar and it came in two sizes, big and bigger. A nuclear mortar. And I've seen 'em, up close, at the infantry museum. It's like a 9' tube that fires a fatman looking warhead.

That had to be a suicide weapon because I don't get how the person firing it would be still alive after the fission reaction took place downrange.