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Originally Posted by TorpX
BTW, I always thought it curious that the KM used metric-meters and English knots. Can anyone explain this?
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Up until WW2, germany used metric values for everything, but I suppose "knots" was mantained for naval purposes since it was so traditional. It's not the same for instance in aviation, where airplanes would use kilometeres for both range and altitude, and km/h for speed.
Russia used this same system up until the fall of comunism.