Mother of all Bren Accessories

[Brit plumber]

Peter, have you heard of extended sights for the Bren? I found a LOC that mentiones extended sights for AA use. Probably somthing that never materialised into anything.

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[hatrick]

Sweet Set!!!!

[LesterH]

There is a twin Brengun AA mount . On display at the Imperial War Musem at Duxford Airfield Cambridgeshire. The guns are DP Dovetail brens. The mount is fitted with a spider site.
I think for non AA mount Brenguns the theory was to walk the fire on to the attacking aircraft by loading more tracer rounds. The drum mags obscured the iron site on the MK1 Bren.

[BRK]

My dad was with the AIF 9th Div in Tobruk and told a story about a guy (Pte Maurice JENKINS) who was awarded an MM by manning a tripod mounted Bren who took on attacking Stukas. Dad was his loader and when the digger fired at the approaching planes they honed in on them. Like everybody else dad went for cover but the gunner stood his ground and kept firing with rounds bouncing all around him. The gunner survived, got his medal and much abuse from his fellow diggers for attracting the attention of attacking aircraft.

BRK

[Hal O'Peridol]

Picked up a Russian DT machine gun drum. Going to attempt to convert it for use on a Bren. It does load, and function with .303.....similar enough in shape and length to the original 7.62x54r..... if it doesn't work, only out about 30 bucks. Nice winter project.