The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would supply Ukraine with depleted uranium tank rounds for the first time in its ongoing war with Russia.
“The United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirement,” a news release from the Department of Defense said.
According to Reuters, the decision reportedly comes after weeks of internal debate about sending the controversial “armor-piercing” munitions that can be fired from U.S. Abrams tanks.
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Scott Boston, a defense analyst at the Rand Corporation and former Army artillery officer, told The Wall Street Journal the projectile’s impact is similar to “a freight train.”
“It is very long and very dense,”
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