Preface

This story is set in 2095. As such, everything is metric. Below is a conversion table. At the very bottom of the conversion table is a table of VERY rough (read inaccurate but close enough for a hand grenade) conversions for some of the most-often used measurements.

Distance

1 kilometer (km) = .62 miles = 1 klick (military jargon for km)
1 meter (m) = 39.37 inches
1 centimeter (cm) = .3937 inches
1 mile = 1.6 km
1 foot = 30.48 cm or .3048 m
1 inch = 2.54 cm
17 mm= .669 caliber or inch
15 mm= .59 caliber or inch
13 mm= .51 caliber or inch
11 mm= .43 caliber or inch
10 mm= .3937 caliber or inch
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