"MCN" wrote in message ...
Is there a version of the Mk 84 'iron bomb' that contained depleted uranium
(DU) to give the Mk 84 a better performance as bunker buster? I'm asking as
a spokesperson for the State Department said on 8 June 1981 in reaction to
the Israeli attack on the Iraqi Osirak/Tammuz 17 nuclear reactor:
"US-supplied uranium weapons used in the raid..." The only way those dropped
Mk 84 could have been a kind of uranium weapon would be that they contained
DU. Would make sense to me, but I never read that such a version of the Mk
84 existed. Anybody any info about that?



Thanks,

Sounds like that State Department fellow was (as usual for the folks
from Foggy Bottom) not that aware of military capabilities. There is
no indication that such a weapon existed.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/mk84.htm

Brooks




MCN