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- From: Dave Pierson <pierson@ggone.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Re: Bofors 40mm AA in WW2
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:36:40 GMT
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- From Dave Pierson <pierson@ggone.enet.dec.com>
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- In article <Bxo1D0.6H3@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (Iskandar Taib) writes, in part:
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- >It suddenly struck me that throughout all this, the usual
- >American practice of expressing things in inches seems to
- >have been abandoned by the artillery people. While the Bri-
- >tish stuck to their peculiar "how much does an iron ball
- >of this diameter weigh" measure, the American gunners seem
- >to have adopted millimeters while the rest of the country
- >was still thinking in terms of thousandths of inches, inches
- >and cubic inches - I imagine a 76mm gun might be called a
- >6.08 caliber gun.. was this due, perhaps, to American sol-
- >diers using French equipment during the First World War?
-
- hmmm? 25.4mm/inch. a 75 mm gun is a 3" gun (more or less.).
- The next common US caliber is 105mm (4"), then 155 (6"). The 20mm/40mm
- etc are "strictly metric". The odd thing, to me, os that so much of
- the world stayed "inchcentric": German 76mm, Russian 77 mm, German
- 88 mm (~3.5" 3.46...").
-
- (rumor has that the 106mm recoiless was so named so that the logistics
- crew could, at a galnce tell the difference between 105mm (conventional)
- and 106mm (recoilless...) ammo.
-
- thanks
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