Eggburt1969
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To the best of my knowledge, the BLU-86/B family, and the related BLU-63/B family, are comprised of a two-part sheet steel outer casing and a two-part steel fragmenting body. The later A/B models also include incendiary pellets, but they aren't DU-based.someone told me, that DU is used in the pre-scored fragmentation steel liner of the BLU 86 cluster bombs. Is this possible?
I mean, that is the wrong use for this material, too
The M74 APAM submunitions carried by the M39 and M39A1 ATACMS guided missiles use tungsten-based two-part fragmenting bodies, so again not uranium.
Uranium alloy-based submunition fragmenting bodies were thought about, but not implemented as far as I'm aware. An example image below.