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Yes, in military jargon a click is 1 kilometer. I am a former army officer commissioned in the Field Artillery. When calling for steel on the target (shooting at the enemy) the distance was always given in kilometers or clicks.
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Last post on Today at 4:21 am in After Hours Lounge ... I've seen countless movies where military talk about such and such a target being so many "clicks" away. No one has ever been able to tell me what distance a "click" is. Anyone?
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Acronyms, abbreviations and terms searchable by definition and usage of individual term ... From this page you can browse the DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. The DOD Dictionary and the Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations master data base are managed by the Joint Doctrine Division, J-7, Joint Staff.
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www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/
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The traditional battlesight in most branches of the military is a setting of two to three hundred yards, though this can vary ... A chart of the point blank range settings, and effective distances for various cartridges is shown below. ... It will take 21 clicks of vertical adjustment to properly set the hairs for the shot.
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'16, M-16 standard military rifle; Special Forces ... B-52 BOMBER the B-52 is regarded by experts as the most successful military aircraft ever produced. It began entering service in the mid-1950s and by 1959 had replaced the awesome but obsolete B-36 as the backbone of Strategic Air Command's (SAC) heavy bomber force.
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Althought the MP43, with a fully loaded thiry round magazine, was more than three pounds heavier than ... The U. S. ... As a result, the lower recoil and impulse of the 5.56mm ammuntion does not provide greater fire power since full automatic fire from an individual assault rifle is largely ineffective and only wastes ammunition.
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The course was a test of each shooter's ability to read wind and mirage, calculate their shots, and successfully engage one target at each of four unknown distances. ... (Several shooters, in the spirit of helping Carlos, contributed more than just the entrance fee.) Many law enforcement and military snipers --
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The events of September 11th took its toll here as well, dropping the final number to 76. Several military teams suddenly had other duties. ... What are the clicks? If you go down on the real ... For example, he can acquire and hit 10 targets spread throughout a field at varying distances from 200 to 700 yards in 24 seconds.
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Shelina writes: One of the reasons Britain gives for its military intervention in Afghanistan is the liberation of Muslim woman from oppression. But what if anything has really changed for them in the 8 years in which the UK and US have been present in the country?
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