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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Ed Timms
Mar. 27--Picture a modern-day Sgt. Rock -- comic book biceps bulging -- defending truth, democracy and apple pie with an M-16 in each hand.
"Eat environmentally friendly tungsten-tin," he yells as streams of bullets cut down godless commies or other ideologically challenged adversaries.
It's not quite as rousing and emphatic as "Eat lead," but times change. The Army wants ammunition that is less likely to cause environmental damage, an alternative to lead-core ammunition that can that pollute ground water and cause cleanup headaches.
By 2005, Army officials plan to replace their lead-core 5.56 mm ammunition with tungsten-tin or tungsten-nylon composites. The new rounds are in limited production, and up to 50 million may be produced next year. More than 200 million rounds of 5.56...
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