Comment Re:Metric (Score 1) 74
Convert that 5.56mm or 7.62 mm to inches and you will find two very common caliber rounds.
Yep. It's not all that hard to label a round with SI AND Imperial units both.
Do note that 5.56mm is NOT equal to
It should also be noted that the 5.56/7.62 labels were the original labels, not the
And try to ignore that bullet diameters are measured differently in Europe than in the USA (between the lands and between the grooves, respectively, as I recall), so 7.62mm (measured the way they do in Europe) is larger than 7,62mm (measured the way they do in the USA). Luckily, 7.62mm NATO isn't actually 7.62mm the way either of them is measured....