A 'metric' bullet would have been 7.00 mm!
7.62 demonstrates the way that the UK has also gone metric - by
keeping the same old imperial sizes (7.62mm = 0.30") and just showing
them with metric conversions.
Our pints of milk are labelled in metric = 568ml.
Jez
On 22/07/2014, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, our English cousins across the pond still use the mile. And gauge
> their speeds in miles per hour.
>
> Here in the US, the military was early on the metric system, even back in my
> day, which was closer to Continental Army days than to today’s army. Our
> M-14 rifles fired 7.62 mm NATO standard rounds. Now, I believe the M-16
> fires a 5.something mm round. Distances were measured in meters and
> kilometers, also known as “klicks”. I suspect we went metric way back then
> because of NATO.
>
> I still tend to think in meters, but long since have given up klicks, except
> when I’m in the unoccupied part of Canada. My rule of thumb for figuring
> distances up there is divide klicks in half and add some back. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> A mile is a unit of measure used to measure large distances. Was used
>> through the English-speaking world for centuries, but in the 20th Century
>> it was abandoned in favor of the Metric Kilometer, except in the USA. The
>> length of a mile has varied over the years and in different countries. An
>> American mile is 5280 feet, or 1.6 km.
>
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