"MCN" wrote in message
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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?


First off, a cite for your quote would be nice.

Secondly, having just finished a 7-week targeting course for USAF, I only
found "regular" Mk 84s in the inventory when I was weaponeering.

It is possible though, that the Israelis could have ginned up something on
their own.