Re: BREN/BAR THOUGHTS

At 9:25 AM +1100 3/3/02, Derek Fulton wrote:
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>The differences being the barrel, no conical flash suppressor and 
>the magazine. Straight has opposed to curved. Did a search and found 
>this picture;
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>http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg10-e.htm
>
>I never handled the 7.62mm Bren, although it was still in service in 
>the Australian Army for quite some time. Used in Vietnam and 
>continued in service into the 1980's, I can remember regular army 
>units firing this weapon on the range when I was a teenager. The 
>last time I came across the Bren was when I saw some army reserve 
>officer cadets under going weapons instruction, but by this stage I 
>think the Bren was almost exclusively a training tool.

Actually the 7.62 Brens are still in use today. The Indians have lots 
of them. SLRS and Enfields too. The Indian government just handed out 
a bunch of Enfields to some villagers in Kashmir as self defense 
tool. Not that they showed them much as far as training.
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