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Old 07-07-17, 08:10 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Shadriss View Post
For all nautical applications, including TLAM/TASM, Nm is the correct version to use. The US may use imperial, the rest of the world metric, but on the sea, we have apparently all agreed on something for once, and that is the nautical mile.
Oh yeah - I completely agree with you
All the ships on the seven seas have agreed on the Nautical Mile being the standard unit of measurement - and use knots as a common unit of measuring speed

As an aside - this makes total sense to me - 1nm equals one minute of latitude - that totally makes sense to me as a unit of measurement
Much more sense than a statute mile, which seems to be based upon furlongs
Or possibly Rods (A 14th Century Surveyors unit of measurement)
Or again possibly the distance a Roman Legion would cover in 1000 paces

(And if you want to know more about the development of our units of measurement, please Wiki it - it just gets more confusing the more you delve into it . But this is the kind of stuff I find really interesting)

What I am actually asking is if we actually know whether the game uses Statute Miles or Nautical Miles

The difference between the two is 26537 yards - so this could be very important
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