I find this hard to believe. The US Army uses weapons with metric designated ammunition, uses metric sized artillery, and marches to maps laid out in MGRS, a modified UTM projection system with the grid in meters. I don't have clear data on the ships and planes of the other services. Our aircraft industry doesn't seem to like metric well, so it could be true on aircraft, but I don't really have data. Supposedly the Federal government procures in metric (required by EO12770), but it's possible exceptions are made for hardware they really want. The designs are classified, and I have never seen the drawings.
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:44546] Military metric To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:54 PM Dear All, I found this on the web. All the military equipment made in America and sold overseas makes no concessions to metric measures. Is this the truth? Cheers, Pat Naughtin PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
