Data mile
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In radar-related subjects and in JTIDS, a data mile is a unit of distance equal to . An international mile is 0.88 data mile. The speed of light is , or about one foot per nanosecond. If it were exactly one foot per nanosecond, and a target was one data mile away, then the radar return from that target would arrive 12 microseconds after the transmission. (Recall that radar was developed during World War II in America and England, while both were using English units. It was convenient for them to relate 1 data mile to 12 microseconds.)
In radar-related subjects and in JTIDS, a data mile is a unit of distance equal to . An international mile is 0.88 data mile. The speed of light is , or about one foot per nanosecond. If it were exactly one foot per nanosecond, and a target was one data mile away, then the radar return from that target would arrive 12 microseconds after the transmission. (Recall that radar was developed during World War II in America and England, while both were using English units. It was convenient for them to relate 1 data mile to 12 microseconds.) ==See also== Radar mile ==References== Data Mile in wolfram.com
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