The real danger with DU comes with the vaporized or aerosolized form, which occurs on impact. Is that occurring on our training ranges?
Because Army and DOD Regulations prohibit use of DU in training, the Army does not use munitions that contain DU on its training ranges in Hawaii. Separately, the Army has conducted testing during prescribed burns and there was no indication that DU was present in the air. The M101 spotting rounds used in Hawaii were not designed like todays DU penetrators as kinetic energy munitions, but rather to mimic the flight trajectory of the Davy Crocketts nuclear warhead and mark the point of impact. Unlike modern DU penetrators that upon impact with a targetdepending on the munitions, the nature of the impact, and the targetmay generate a cloud of DU dust, use of the M101 spotting round would have resulted in the 6.7 ounces of DU used in the round being deposited in large fragments in the immediate vicinity of the point of impact without burning.
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