Afternoon all.
I wonder is it possible to work out the contract/user of a Mk3 Bren UE57A4803 any ideas?
Its on behalf of a NZ based collector...
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Afternoon all.
I wonder is it possible to work out the contract/user of a Mk3 Bren UE57A4803 any ideas?
Its on behalf of a NZ based collector...
Hi,
I have UE57 A5114 MK3 Enfield 1957 that was in a batch of 1000 (A4381-A5380) dispatched to Woolwich
Cliff
Hi Cliff, many thanks for that information, I will pass that on. So we can assume British Military service I would guess...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ammoman
I would say it's a safe bet that it never strayed far.
UE55A2371 to UE57A5114 (And probably beyond) came out of the ROI. Some of those were new in the wrap with British stores tags.
Just realised A4803 is Trents gun.
When I read about Irish Contracts I always have a wry smile BP. With British Army stores labels? With the RAF 9E stores part number for Bren Guns too.......
Possibly sold to the Irish from U.K. Stocks. Happens a lot in the current defence industry. The RAF sold a number of their Typhoons to oversees buyers and then purchased a new contract which are yet to be built.
And on a slight Tangent, we just witnessed our first Typhoon being scrapped or "Harvested" as they call it (RTP for Typhoon).
It does seem difficult to understand the logic of those who make the decisions, at times, especially since we still operate the Tornado GR4 aircraft which is much older. Wasn't it just batch 1 aircraft of the Typhoon fleet that may be sold, B.P.?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brit plumber
Was that the example we were discussing a while ago BP that "pancaked" with only a few hours on the airframe some years back ... Or have they already started on the T birds?
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F10, the RAF diverted block 2 production to enable expedited delivery to Saudi Arabia.
The RAF is replacing these with Block 3 jets.
The belly landing was DK which was ZJ943, that one has also long gone, I think it went to a museum but there's not much that can be done with it until there's a surplus of scrap parts. It was robbed of anything salvageable.
815 was a T1 twin with only 1500 hours on it, real shame seeing as they are fatigued to 6000hrs. Eventually there will be no twins with all training carried out with synthetic trainers such as the flight sim. First real flight in a Typhoon for future pilots will be their first solo. That will take some big B.......undercarriage!
Seems a real shame, but as they intend to keep two squadrons of early typhoons operational into the 2030's now, they will need to harvest the T birds for the early spec spares I guess. What a waste of tax payers money...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brit plumber
Some pics of the Bren in question guys.
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