<ot>Bren Guns</ot>

On Monday, April 13, 1998 9:52 PM, Thomas Barclay
[SMTP:Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca] wrote:
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> I always understood the Bren to be LMG material. Is it perchance the 
> Sten you are thinking of? 

The Bren is a Czech well made magazine fed LMG, I used to strip them in
the 
army cadets. The Sten is the tinplate SMG later replaced by the
Stirling. Both
very inferior to their German counterparts.

(Probably from a somewhat similar design 
> strategy....). I can't see anyone equipping a large force with any 
> large number of LMGs. 

LMG's usually one per section of 8 men.

tim jones
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