A row of U.S. Army 25 mm rounds of depleted uranium ammunition, photographed at the base of Charlie Company, 1-22 Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, in Tikrit, Iraq, in February 2004.

Depleted uranium munitions, as well as depleted uranium-enhanced armor, were used by U.S. tanks in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq’s T-72 tanks and again in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as well ...

When fired, a depleted uranium munition becomes “essentially an exotic metal dart fired at an extraordinarily high speed,” RAND senior defense analyst Scott Boston said. In the 1970s, the U.S. Army ...

The Pentagon listed the 120 mm depleted-uranium tank ammunition as part of a $175 million security-assistance package that was officially revealed on Wednesday. The announcement coincided with a ...

Both the the British ministry and the White House dismissed the Russian accusations. But the ammunition does carry risks even if it’s not a nuclear weapon. A look at depleted uranium ammunition: ...

Decades ago, the US military began using depleted uranium to make mortar shells, bullets, tank armor, and aircraft weights because of its density, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The Pentagon has said it will send depleted uranium armour-piercing ammunition to Ukraine as part of a new assistance package, a step a senior Russian official called a "criminal act." WHAT ARE ...

The U.S. military is still developing depleted uranium munitions, notably the M829A4 armor-piercing round for the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank, Boston said.

A member of a radiation team holds a 30mm armor-piercing shell containing depleted uranium, used by NATO during air strikes on Bosnia in 1995, which was found in a former military factory in the ...