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Yes, but do they actually use them in combat? Not to my knowledge.
Yes https://hir.harvard.edu/depleted-uranium-devastated-health-military-operations-and-environmental-injustice-in-the-middle-east/
This was over 20 years ago though. We did a lot of things different back then.
Syria 2015 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-pentagon-confirms-it-used-depleted-uranium-syria
While it is possible DU API munitions have been used in Iran (https://www.cndsalisbury.org.uk/news_items/9279-are-us-warplanes-firing-depleted-uranium-at-iranian-targets) it is certain in my mind that the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities and resulting toxic black rain and oil spills (https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-black-rain-pollution-d5f67db4a772775c83dfa3fd303cf25d) will cause far more dire public health damage than any DU usage.
The real DU health effects are on soldiers. But since when does the US GAF about their soldiers? suckers and losers, amirite?
Wrong. US is still using uranium.
"DU is still used to make ammunition and weapons. DU contamination from spent shells and shell fragments is a hazard at some military firing ranges."
https://www.epa.gov/radtown/depleted-uranium
Yes, the US Military uses DU. Specifically, it's used in both the armor and ammunition for the M1 Abrams tank. It was used extensively by US forces in the recent series of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And there was enough of an issue around veterans exposure that the VA setup a program to track known cases of soldiers exposed to it. There is also a "helpful" FAQ page from the US Military's health system downplaying the effects of DU exposure.
Not sure they still do, but the US definitely has used them.
https://www.wise-uranium.org/dhap992.html
Absolutely, in Iraq.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7903104/
and there have been health effects on the people.