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On Aug 29, 8:42 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

The Trident missile has a 4000 nm range.

Dan


Why did our military buy a missile with a 4000 nanometer range ?

It's nautical mile, not nanometer. A nautical mile (exactly 1852
meters) is about one minute of lattitude on the earth's surface.

Joe Gwinn