"WAR" a terrible movie w Jason Statham

[Boriqua]

(WARNING possibly stupid content ahead)

So scanning for something to watch last night and the wife found "War." Its an older movie with Jet li and Jason Statham. We generally like Statham movies so we gave it a whirl. Not yet done but .. whew .. its terrible.

Having said that there was some "interesting" gun content.

So Jet Li .. super assassin ... is using what appears to be a Walther chambered in what appears to be 5.7. Pretty sure that the walther shown is not chambered for 5.7 but fine

Anyway ... the interesting part to me is that his super assassin rounds are super assassin rounds because they use Titanium cases and Depleted uranium bullets. Sure sounds super assassin

So I just had to look. Yup depleted uranium at least in Rifle rounds have been tried.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/depleted-uranium-7-62-nato-rounds-obscure-object-desire/

So I chased it down a little more .. oh the stupid sh*t you do when you dont go out to work everyday anymore ... and the theory is that the DU is far denser than lead and the same round size would be much heavier. The thread was closed at High Road which seemed silly but there was at least one good post in the thread before fear drove them to close it

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/depleted-uranium-pistol-rounds.544440/

I thought the guy mentally masturbating on the .357 round was pretty interesting.

So ... what if anything does anyone here know about DU outside of its use in tank killer rounds. Was it ever tried in a handgun?

And the Titanium case? I havent found anything on that but I was pretty sure that brass cases were extruded kind of like beer cans and you couldnt do that with titanium so they would have to be cast or machined .. No? What benefit to a round using titanium cases?

Again .. I know its movies stuff and to the uninitiated it sounds cool but .. well .. I found it interesting to think about.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/War_(2007)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499556/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[smithers599]

Can't think of any advantage to titanium cases. Sounds like movie BS made up by some screenwriter who knows nothing about guns and is too lazy to learn anything about guns.

There was a "joke" going around the internet about some pilots who stopped a hijacker using a "Ruger Bearcat with a hand-fluted cylinder." Of all the guns a pilot might carry, the Ruger Bearcat is way near the end of the list. It doesn't have a fluted cylinder. There is no advantage to a fluted cylinder that makes it more deadly or effective for stopping hijackers, and there is certainly no advantage to fluting a cylinder by hand rather than by machine. It's just gun-sounding words by clueless people.

So, it sounds like "War" is a bad movie generally, made even worse by stupid, clueless gun BS.

Now, a Glock 7 -- there is a cool gun, right?

 

[Gunslinger808]

DU is not something I’d want to mess with as far as reloading, it can be quite poisonous.

 

[Pscipio03]

Our 120mm APFSDS were DU and you wanted nothing to do with anything hit by them. The dust left behind was really good at killing you later down the line. Our front skirts and other parts of armor were DU as well. Perfectly fine unless it was penetrated and became breathable.
As for making a bullet... dunno. You’d have to have some screwy tight twist rates to stabilize the round. More likely you’d need a discarding sabot like the SLAP .50 round so you could maintain weight with a smaller projectile. Like a 55gr 5.56 projectile that was about the size of a .17 but with a sabot. That could be fun to work up a load, but be damned if I want to be near any metal targets you shoot at.