BAE Promoting Environmentally-Friendly Munitions
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Monday September 18, 2006 16:16
by pat c
You truly could not make this stuff up. Lead-free bullets are safer: for the user, but for the target. Read the full story at the link.
pat c
BAE Promoting Environmentally-Friendly Munitions
by Staff Writers
London (AFP) Sep 17, 2006
British arms manufacturer BAE Systems is designing "environmentally friendly" weapons, including "reduced lead" bullets, "reduced smoke" grenades and rockets with fewer toxins, The Sunday Times said. Other initiatives include developing armoured vehicles with lower carbon emissions, safer and more sustainable artillery and even recycling or composting waste explosives, the newspaper added.