Imperial Miles or Nautical Miles?

[max-peck]

OK - so I have to launch my TLAMS within 100 miles of the target for the game to register this a a successful mission

Anyone know if this is Imperial Miles or Nautical miles?

I am going to go with Imperial Miles today just to be sure (it is a shorter distance - 176000 Yards)

But it would be nice to know

EDIT
The title of this thread should say Statute Mile not Imperial Mile
Apparently there is no such thing as an Imperial Mile
You can have either a Statute Mile or a Nautical Mile
Go Figure

[max-peck]

PS
It would be nice to be able to draw a circle from the target area with a 100 mile radius

[Shadriss]

For all nautical applications, including TLAM/TASM, Nm is the correct version to use. The US may use imperial, the rest of the world metric, but on the sea, we have apparently all agreed on something for once, and that is the nautical mile.

[max-peck]

Originally Posted by Shadriss

For all nautical applications, including TLAM/TASM, Nm is the correct version to use. The US may use imperial, the rest of the world metric, but on the sea, we have apparently all agreed on something for once, and that is the nautical mile.

Oh yeah - I completely agree with you
All the ships on the seven seas have agreed on the Nautical Mile being the standard unit of measurement - and use knots as a common unit of measuring speed

As an aside - this makes total sense to me - 1nm equals one minute of latitude - that totally makes sense to me as a unit of measurement
Much more sense than a statute mile, which seems to be based upon furlongs
Or possibly Rods (A 14th Century Surveyors unit of measurement)
Or again possibly the distance a Roman Legion would cover in 1000 paces

(And if you want to know more about the development of our units of measurement, please Wiki it - it just gets more confusing the more you delve into it . But this is the kind of stuff I find really interesting)

What I am actually asking is if we actually know whether the game uses Statute Miles or Nautical Miles

The difference between the two is 26537 yards - so this could be very important
The difference between getting a mission success or a mission failure

[Shadriss]

Originally Posted by max-peck

What I am actually asking is if we actually know whether the game uses Statute Miles or Nautical Miles

The difference between the two is 26537 yards - so this could be very important
The difference between getting a mission success or a mission failure

Uhm... your numbers are off. Way off. A statue mile is 5280 feet (1760 yds) and a nautical mile is 5802 feet (1934 yds). Certainly not a difference of 26.5 Kyds.

That said, my answer doesn't change - if everyone uses knots and Nm at sea, then the game uses the same system.

[max-peck]

Originally Posted by Shadriss

Uhm... your numbers are off. Way off. A statue mile is 5280 feet (1760 yds) and a nautical mile is 5802 feet (1934 yds). Certainly not a difference of 26.5 Kyds.

That said, my answer doesn't change - if everyone uses knots and Nm at sea, then the game uses the same system.

The difference between 100 nm and 100 statute miles is 26537 yards I believe

Sorry I didn't make that clear