Leaded bullets "Pose a risk to people"
According to a story in The Register this morning, BAE Systems, the UK’s largest arms manufacturer, wants to go green. On the agenda:
- Lead-free bullets, so as not to “harm the environment and pose a risk to people”
- Reduced emission jet engines
- Quieter warheads to produce less noise pollution
- Grenades that produce less smoke
I’m a closet armementophile. I go to airshows and defence exhibitions and I write about this stuff sometimes. However, military folk and arms manufacturers tend to be fairly realistic about what they do. You may not approve but at the sharp end nobody pretends that bullets don’t kill. Until now.
I feel like the satirist who quit when Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger got the Nobel peace prize. Unfair competition. Really, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Technorati Tags: irony, BAE Systems, bullets
Robert wrote:
Indeed. Brothers Grimm could not have made up this kind of fairytale. Next they’ll be lobbying for bio-degradable dum-dums!
I’ll leave any pun to your imagination.
I can just imagine the frontline at some unfortuate warzone with the 511th Dukes Green Highlanders being told to keep a bio-degradable up the chamber!
Posted on 20-Sep-06 at 6:47 am | Permalink
donna papacosta wrote:
You crack me up, Matthew. You’re right. You couldn’t make this stuff up!
Posted on 20-Sep-06 at 1:06 pm | Permalink
Safer bullets? « Suz at Large wrote:
[...] A couple of weeks ago over at Bad Language, Matthew marveled at a weapons maker’s green initiative: According to a story in The Register this morning, BAE Systems, the UK’s largest arms manufacturer, wants to go green. On the agenda: [...]
Posted on 06-Oct-06 at 3:08 am | Permalink