Subject: Actual situation in Belgium
Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:22:47 +0000
From:   Peter

Dear Friends,

I just would like to inform you of some recent initiatives on DU in Belgium. Last year, we made a proposition of law in order to ban DU in ammunitions in our country. The debate in Parliament is planned for next month.

I just received some information that DU may be used also in our country during shooting exercises with US A-10's in the Limburg region (Helchteren). Until now, I didn't succeed in verifying it, because the Belgain authorities say they really don't know what kind of weapons the US army uses during it's exercices...

Last month I visited Serbia and found out that people there are very worried about possible health effects of DU. They refer to the presence of DU in Tomahawk cruise missiles. Does there exist some precise information on this?

Kind regards,
 
Peter


Yes: This is official statement of US Department of Defense:
In case of CMs, the DU is used in nose cones. I'm currently trying to find out exactly which CMs contain DU.

DoD Launches Depleted Uranium Training
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug1999/n08131999_9908131.html
By Linda D. Kozaryn

American Forces Press Service

[...]

  Depleted uranium is used in M-1 Abrams tanks, Phalanx gun systems and some cruise missiles, as well as A-10s, Harriers and other military and civilian aircraft. The Abrams, Bradley fighting vehicles and other weapon systems use ammunition containing DU penetrators.

[...]

Dr. Georg