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To: archy

Of course 7.62 cal = 7.62 MM

Getting old is a bitch, but it sure as hell beats the alternative!


81 posted on 03/13/2008 6:37:45 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat
Of course 7.62 cal = 7.62 MM

Sometimes also seen written as 7,62 mm, and on some ammo crate markings as 7/62mm. About the only likely source for confusion would be in naval gunnery, where caliber is also used to express barrel length in relation to projectile diameter, as with the US 3-inch, 50 cal and the 5-inch 25cal. guns- a 7.62 caliber naval piece would have a really short tube, like a mountain howitzer. I suppose the Soviet 76.2mm AT gun caliber could become an easy typo goof, too.

Getting old is a bitch, but it sure as hell beats the alternative!

Surely reasonable people with differing viewpoints can find some middle position and compromise!

86 posted on 03/14/2008 10:12:16 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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