The BREN Light Machine Gun
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Not strictly speaking a weapon that is part of the Rifleman remit, but a significant British arm that is worthy of representation amongst our reference pages of Service smallarms
To commence this page we show a facsimile of the Small Arms Training
(SAT) pamphlet for the .303-inch calibre Bren LMG.
This was one of the later pamphlets issued post-WWII in 1955, affording practically everything you would wish to know of this remarkable weapon, except that the name was derived from the melding of the first two letters of the Czechoslovakian factory at Bruno where the original arm was designed, and the Enfield Royal Smallarms Factory where the British version was finalised - i.e., "BR + EN".
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Previously, during the WWII, there was a section in the Anti-Aircraft SAT pamphlet No.6 of 1942 that covered the use of the Bren LMG in that rôle. Below is just that section extracted from the document.
The complete pamphlet can be viewed HERE. It covers the use of most small arms of the day in the anti-aircraft rôle, and the use of the Spotlight Projector for training in pracytice for estimating the "lead" necessary in shooting at aircraft moving across at differing angles.
See also: The prototype S.M.L.E. with anti-aircraft sights
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The skeletonised Bren below resides in the collection of the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Enfield. The image was taken Rifleman with their kind permission.
Below: a Bren team in action with their Bren Carrier lying low behind them.
Below: King George VI during wartime (1939-45)
testing the Bren LMG.
A factory worker enjoyinga cigarette break during final assembly of the LMG.
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