DU is used to manufacture kinetic energy penetrators- giant pencils or rods. Each kinetic penetrator consists of almost entirely uranium 238. The United States munitions industry produces the following DU munitions with the corresponding mass of uranium 238:
• 7.62 mm with unspecified mass
• 50 caliber with unspecified mass
• 20 mm with a mass of approximately 180 grams.
• 25 mm with a mass of approximately 200 grams.
• 30 mm with a mass of approximately 280 grams.
• 105 mm with a mass of approximately 3500 grams.
• 120 mm with a mass of approximately 4500 grams.
• Sub-munitions / land mines such as the PDM and ADAM whose structural body contain a small proportion of DU.
• Cruise missiles with unknown quantity of DU
• Bunker buster bombs with unknown quantity of DU