The United States has decided to send controversial depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine for the first time, as part of a new aid package worth more than $1 billion announced Wednesday.

The key to having this work with depleted uranium was the use of iron at different states of oxidisation as a part of the bath. The bigger the tanks, the more power they can theoretically store.

(CNN) — The United States has decided to send controversial depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine for the first time, as part of a new aid package worth more than $1 billion announced Wednesday.

When Britain announced it would supply Ukraine with depleted uranium rounds designed to penetrate tank armor, Russia decried the move as escalation. U.S. officials had a simple response: If you ...

The U.S. has announced a new security package for Ukraine worth up to $175 million. And for the first time, the U.S. is sending anti-tank rounds containing depleted uranium. Russia has called the ...

It is not clear whether Russia uses depleted uranium shells itself, though the state news agency Tass reported in 2018 that a modernized version of its main battle tank had the capacity to fire them.