U.S. government sextant specification
Subject: U.S. government sextant specification
From: Paul Hirose (paulhirose@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 15:20:47 EST
The current U.S. government specification for marine sextants is
A-A-59005. It replaces previous military standards such as the one for
the Navy Mark 3 sextant pictured in my 1984 Bowditch.
Based on my military experience, I can't help wondering if the spec
was tailored to a particular manufacturer. The users want such and
such product, but procuring it by name isn't allowed. So they state
requirements which "just happen" to describe a product made by one
company.
The PDF document is only 15 k so I've attached it to this message.
