Tungsten Military Applications - Tungsten Alloy Penetrators

With high-density, tungsten alloy is widely used in the production of various high-speed ammunition, especially penetrator, it is the core material of modern penetrators. Environment friendly material tungsten, is almost the only core material choice of high-speed penetrator bombs, but it has been a scarce resource, the United States had for economic and strategic reasons, developed the depleted uranium (uranium-238 primarily) as an alternative material for tungsten penetrator, but has been criticized because of environmental issues.

China has been the most abundant mineral resources of tungsten, during World War II, due to tungsten imports from China was cut off, Nazi German tanks is serious lack of big powerful tungsten alloy penetrator, and Tiger tanks and other weapons are greatly reduced in the fire.




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