A question for the gun experts. Does anyone know anything about the sights shown on this BREN LMG? Join the Modern Army. © IWM (Art.IWM PST 14596)IWM Non Commercial Licence Thanks Lee
It looks like he's using the standard sight that the weapon is fitted with. The disc that you turn and the sight goes up and down? I think the bit near the handle that he's holding with his left hand is just part of the bracket to the stand.
My dodging eyesight, I thought there was a strange sight sticking out at a right angle, that the soldier on our right was looking through. But as has been pointed out to me on Twitter, it's just the front bipod legs playing a trick on me! :redface:
Front hand on the carrying handle. Only seen one once - the 99 round drum magazine AA use. Certainly with the later GPMG used in the light AA role - where possible tracer should be used to 'hose' onto the target. Using the aperture sight was not advised as this restricts the area of sky scanned (we have all lost a photo target as it disappears from the viewfinder - or to keep both eyes open to calculate the lead off angle as pigeon shooters do. There is nothing to see through the sights, the gun is being aimed into the empty air space where convergence of rounds and aircraft meet. http://www.scribd.com/doc/142384671/Bren-LMG-Manual
What I'm on the look out for is a photograph released in 1940 showing a BREN with fake anti-aircraft sights used for part of an anti-invasion propaganda deception. So I saw way too much into the above photo!
Newspaper Illustrations: https://archive.org/stream/Ww2BritishIllustrationsCutawaysAndDiagrams-Newspaper/Ww2BritishNewspaperIllustrations-CutawaysAndDiagrams#page/n0/mode/2up Twins: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twin_Bren_gun_anti-aircraft_mounting_at_RAF_Duxford.jpg"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twin_Bren_gun_anti-aircraft_mounting_at_RAF_Duxford.jpg[/url]
