"klicks". I could be wrong but believe the Navy still uses yards for gunnery, though. hey did fairly recently, anyway.
I don't have any issues with metric but it's just not the big deal that the whiners keep saying that it is. I can spot fractional heads, too (I used to be a lot better when I did it more). There really isn't all that much difference. It just takes a little education. The cost of switching isn't worth the price, though.
I watched a documentary about the modern British Navy where they were using yards for the ship's guns but the ground troupes were using meters. I'm going to guess that all the naval artillery tables and calculations would have to be redone to convert to metric. I remember that the older ships have mechanical computers to calculate trajectories and it would be quite a chore to refit those old ships. ^_^
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Note that the Navy also uses nautical miles for surface distance (and yards for torpedoes). All of the conversions are trivial for the few times they're necessary. Certainly easier than the entire service changing. The same is true for domestic use of FPS. With calculators and computers, it's even more true.
You can't teach an old Swabby new tricks. Perhaps the reprogramming of a sailor's brain is more difficult? ^_^
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Perhaps, when things get tense and lives are on the line, you want training to take over and actions to be automatic.
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Can you tell what size my nuts are? Besides small...
No, but one of mine swelled to the size of a baseball. ^_^
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Subatomic?
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Hmm, I haven't noticed them glow yet...
That would require the extra large atoms, and more than two .
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