Stop the pirates of the Interstellar Sextant from getting away with this quick guide for Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader.

Even though we live in the high-tech GPS era when it comes to getting around, it turns out the Royal Canadian Navy still trains with the very low-tech sextant for navigation. The sextant, a tool that ...

Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one. For centuries, sailors used sextants to plot ...

December 6, 2021: In late 2021, Russian video appeared that showed a heavy bomber in flight with one of the crew using s slide rule, apparently to calculate course and/or fuel consumption rate. Most ...