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If only I could have brought it home when I left the FCA

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  • #2
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,070 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    All they gave me was a 303.


  • #3
    sparky42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭sparky42


    What happened to those Brens we sold off in 2012 ish?


  • #4
    roadmaster
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    All they gave me was a 303.

    I must be younger than you I got a FN!


  • #5
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I had one on my first trip to Lebanon.

    They were a dangerous bloody thing (for the soldier), when the soldier would be mounted you'd have to just show the mag and not put it into the weapon because there had been accidents where the weapon was dropped with a loaded mag and the gun would fire.

    The system worked on a heavy blow back bolt mech, but a fall was enough to charge the weapon.

    Can't remember all the details now, we stopped using it very shortly after that trip. But with the folding stock they were handy to carry in and out of a vehicle.


  • #6
    kieranfitz
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    sparky42 wrote: »
    What happened to those Brens we sold off in 2012 ish?

    Destroyed probably. Can't sell them into the US.


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  • #7
    sparky42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭sparky42


    kieranfitz wrote: »
    Destroyed probably. Can't sell them into the US.

    Which begs the next question, why the feck did we still have so many Brens still in storage by then (and what else do we have buried away).


  • #8
    source
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭source


    sparky42 wrote: »
    Which begs the next question, why the feck did we still have so many Brens still in storage by then (and what else do we have buried away).

    They were still being used by non integrated reserve infantry units up to 10 years ago, i remember instructing on gpmg classes for them


  • #9
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    There were so many Brens simply because they bought lots, as the British had plenty to sell and they expected to keep them for at least 30 years, which they did. They also failed to wear out as most of them fired no more than annual schedule, typically no more than a few hundred rounds per year. As an example, when the 3.7 in AA guns were retired after WW2, there were 90,000 rounds to be disposed of. God knows how much small arms ammunition has been thrown into the sea, relating to the wartime weapons alone.....in 1981, in my FCA unit, there was a Mk 2 Bren on the books with the wheel-type sight, but it was rarely fired. Even deactivated Brens make silly money these days. It probably ended up in Hammond Lane, along with all the Bren Carriers.


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