Allied Air Forces

The Gulf War was the first time U.S. forces used depleted uranium rounds. M1A1, Ml, and M60 tanks fired approximately 14,000 depleted-uranium antitank rounds. Air Force A-10 tank-killer planes fired about 940,000 30-millimeter depleted uranium rounds. Depleted uranium rounds were also used by the U.S. and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies in Bosnia and Kosovo. Over 10,800 depleted uranium rounds were fired in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995, and about 31,000 depleted uranium rounds were fired in Operation Allied Force in Kosovo in 1999.7 Since depleted uranium is very abundant, it is likely that terrorists will use rounds made of this material. 

The Allies soon followed their example. During WWI I, the US Air Force used such bombs very effectively, more so than the Germans, to burn out most of the large German and Japanese cities... 

The commitment of a large part of the British army to the Mediterranean and elsewhere meant that of the thirty-five divisions required for the cross-Channel invasion of France, only sixteen would be British, and that subsequent reinforcements would have to come from the United States. The overriding importance of the cross-Channel operation was such that from April to September 1944 the direction of Bomber Command was transferred to the American Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in North-West Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower. The appointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder as deputy supreme commander, with his experience of air co-operation in North Africa, ensured that optimal use was made of Allied air power. 

I hope that this book will be of interest to everyone involved with HEMs irrespective of their background R D laboratories, universities and institutes, production agencies, quality assurance agencies, homeland security, forensic laboratories, chemical industries and armed forces (army, navy and air force). This book will also be of immense use to organizations dealing with the production of commercial explosives and allied chemicals. 

Sparrow (AIM-7F). US long-range air-to-air missile in current production and service. Sparrow is one of the most important missiles currently m service with the NATO air forces, their allies and friends... 

The subcommittee is aware that Air Force personnel engaged in particular jobs (such as fuel-cell workers) are sometimes derm ally exposed to substantial amounts ofJP-8 (see Chapter 2). The subcommittee recommends thatappro-priate protective clothing be worn to avoid dermal exposures to JP-8. 

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