The really cool thing about this is you don't even need it. Tungsten penetrator rods work just as well as uranium does without being nearly as toxic
I think part of the problem is that it just so happens that the vast majority of the world's tungsten is in China, followed (after a very big gap, China has a truly massive supply) by Russia & Vietnam.
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The only Western country to have a decent amount is Canada (and I guess if you combine Austria, Spain & Portugal in Europe they'll add up to a similar amount). The US does actually apparently have some, it's just not actually being mined, I assume because it would be too expensive. So for the US, it is simply much more economical to use DU instead of tungsten (or we could go into the Fallout timeline and have the US invade Canada, just for metal rather than oil).
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I think part of the problem is that it just so happens that the vast majority of the world's tungsten is in China, followed (after a very big gap, China has a truly massive supply) by Russia & Vietnam.
The only Western country to have a decent amount is Canada (and I guess if you combine Austria, Spain & Portugal in Europe they'll add up to a similar amount). The US does actually apparently have some, it's just not actually being mined, I assume because it would be too expensive. So for the US, it is simply much more economical to use DU instead of tungsten (or we could go into the Fallout timeline and have the US invade Canada, just for metal rather than oil).
When the us invades klanada itll be over water