Terry Simpson wrote in USMA 18863:

>> I thought:
>>                  USA                    UK
>> millimetre        ?                    mil
>> 1/1000 inch      mil                  thou
>
>I also thought of 'mil' as used in NATO for angles. There are 64000 in a
>circle.


I think there are only 6400 military mils in a circle.  In artillery,
knowing the range to a target in kilometres and the error in metres from
where the shells are landing to the target. the needed correction to the
azimuth of the gun in mils is error/range.

Joseph B.Reid
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