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From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Thu Nov 11 2004 - 17:42:09 EST
I don't know what M stands for.
Maybe I would guess if I could see its official
manual in Russian.
It was non-trivial to guess from my manual
what T stands for, and I am not 100% sure but only 98.5%
sure:-)
(A wild guess based on my knowledge of Soviet abbreviations
would be that M could stand for "modified". This would
be a very typical Soviet usage.
They had SN first, then added illumination and called
it SNO, then added something else and called SNO-M.
But this is only a guess. I have seen an SN sextant but
never an SNO sextant. There was also an SP sextant,
and an SN-U sextant which look undistinguisheable from
SNO-M:-)
But the difference between SNO-T and SNO-M
is large. SNO-M looks like a 1940-s model of C. Plath,
while SNO-T looks like a Freiberger.
Maybe all this was done intentionally "to confuse the enemy"
:-)
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> What's the difference between SNO-T and SNO-M ?
> If the T stands for Tropical, what does the M stand for, Marine ?
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