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Re: SNO sextants
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 11, 17:42 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 11, 17:42 -0500
I don't know what M stands for. Maybe I would guess if I could see its official manual in Russian. It was non-trivial to guess from my manual what T stands for, and I am not 100% sure but only 98.5% sure:-) (A wild guess based on my knowledge of Soviet abbreviations would be that M could stand for "modified". This would be a very typical Soviet usage. They had SN first, then added illumination and called it SNO, then added something else and called SNO-M. But this is only a guess. I have seen an SN sextant but never an SNO sextant. There was also an SP sextant, and an SN-U sextant which look undistinguisheable from SNO-M:-) But the difference between SNO-T and SNO-M is large. SNO-M looks like a 1940-s model of C. Plath, while SNO-T looks like a Freiberger. Maybe all this was done intentionally "to confuse the enemy" :-) On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Courtney Thomas wrote: > What's the difference between SNO-T and SNO-M ? > If the T stands for Tropical, what does the M stand for, Marine ?