Next message: George Huxtable: "Re: Comments on the units"
Interesting!
So the American artillerists sacrifice the ease of calculation
to higher precision.
"Not because of inferior quality of the compass but I am comfortable
useing 6400 mils to a circle."
I don't think so. I (and all others in the US military) were 1st trained on
and then used the gear. It became 2nd nature to use what we were trained on
and to get results quickly. With the experience gained by using the 6400 mil
format per 360 degrees one knows without really thinking about it how many
mils equal a degree or a quadrant of mils will equal so many degrees etc.
Conversions of bearings from one to the other and visa-versa just become 2nd
nature.
1 * = 17.78 mils
90 * = 1600 mils
The 6,000 mil format the Soviets used on their compasses was just alien to
me for fast, reliable readings and conversions with out having to think
about it.
