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A short while yes. .

Absolutely not so, this was the reference I commented on: The utilisation of DU in incendiary ammunition is controversial because of potential adverse health effects and its release into the environment. It's an opinion, hence the use of the word "controversial" meaning others disagree...

Which is where it's reported that they are only theoretical to date! Neither have proof. .

Not in my military experience. The word tank is confined to those that have a rotating gun turret and a gun that can be fired from any of the 360 degrees. Those with firing limitations such as only in line with the vehicle or a limited range of forward or aft angles are referred to as SPs...

Not at variation with what I posted, that is their opinion. The word "Potential" is the clue. It ranks with "What if" in the lexicon of those who wish to create alarm, usually without foundation. As I've posted, depleted uranium areas and areas of far greater contamination are tourist...

In something like a hundred years time a degree of this may be seen, but members of this forum will never in their lifetimes see remote controlled taxis in place of driven ones, doing what they do. As I've pointed out, remote control travel to all current destinations is impossible in current...

Nor will they. Russia's long term interest is and has long been to be a friend of the rest of Europe, trying to swing Europe to them and away from US anti-Russian policy and aggression. And the Chinese and North Koreans have no interest in attacking us, we aren't in any way either useful or a...

Not fired from tank shells though, could only be done from a special large somewhat stationary gun. As your linked article confirms, the "suitcase" sized bombs only have theoretical status, no evidence of them ever being built. .

But the great majority of the radioactive content, even where concentrated and no matter what the circumstance, is as I've said, at the lowest level. There's far too much hysteria on this subject. Lawsuits mean nothing without proofs, and independent investigations of the Balkan areas where...

But it's largely background radiation of the same type and effect that the earth has always had naturally for the last 4.5 billion years since it was created, so harmless. The small proportion of more active waste quickly loses strength, but as ever the hysterical media combine the two and...

Very difficult to know if this is true due to misreporting. For four decades now some shells have been tipped with depleted uranium extracted from nuclear wastes. The density and hardness of this material is ideal for penetrating armour on tanks and the like and we used them in the Balkans...

Indeed, and not just road hauliers. The railways had shunting yards with the train delivered goods carried forward locally by three wheeled Scammell Mechanical Horse tractors pulling semi trailers, powered by a little Ford 10hp car engine at town speeds. Very efficient, and a modern electric...

Agreed, but I think more likely never. We already have trains competing on time against aircraft on many routes and they'll get even faster. That is far more economic. It may be that the only time in future we take to the air is for crossing wide oceans, but advanced sophisticated...

Very true when they are in the hands of rational people. Snag now is that Pakistan, India, North Korea and China have them and the dominant religions in those areas are fatalistic. Add an unstable leadership and no outcome can be ruled out. .

Agreed, no chance, unless they are making a bid to limit their recently expanding population. .

Public transport completely impossible for many in my position, using a whole day sometimes for something taking only a part of it by car. As I know from experience there can be gaps of hours between train services to many destinations during the day. .

No not true. The Spitfire was a racing seaplane to compete in a popular aerial sport in the 1930s. there was absolutely no thought of it being a warplane in its design. Finding ourselves unprepared for war we hurriedly had it redesigned as a warplane but it was at first very poor in that role...

I think he may be Boris's half brother, the hair is a clue, only Boris hasn't heard about hair lacquer. .

The EU does act against VW and has done a number of times previously. Historically for price fixing on cars the EU first fined VW €8 million, then a few years later when caught price fixing again, €40 millions. Then last September the EU fined VW's Scania truck division €880 millions for price...

This is far from always true. For a number of my working decades I had to commute by car into the middle of London because the use of that car was often unpredictably required at during the day. Sometimes they were company cars, sometimes my own, and there are many in the same position whose...