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    http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...WessexV019.jpg -is it truly L4 in the window?

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    Nope, its a Bren .303 mk1, humped butt and drum sight. Note the Browning .303 (Mk2?) machine gun on the mount, I imagine ther is a matching one on the other side. Is there a caption with the photo? I didn't know that the Wessex was ever fitted with Browning .303s.

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    If I had to give an opinion I'd say that it was a particularly Nayy thing used in/on aircraft carriers in Aden or the Radfan/Libya etc or out there somewhere during the 50's when the Navy still had 303" Brownings that had been removed from aircraft and Brens as ships stores. Certainly in the late 60's they still had 303 Brens and rifles. Maybe a helicopter anorack can identify the year or so by the helicopter mark/type

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    It's RN Westland Wessex HU5 fitted with Westland weapon platform. This modification could be armed with 0.303 MG, 2in rocket pods and SS-11ATGM. Later 0.303 Browning was replaced by 7,62 GPMG. In addition helicopter could be fitted with both side windows and door mounts for GPMG and, as it turned out for the Bren gun

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    Purely by chance, I came across, on ebay, a feed chute with MOD F731 still attached (NAVAL) which is identical to the one fitted to the Browning. Was the HU5 known as the commando varient?

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    Gentlmen, i think it will be intresting fo you.

    This is ATDU Technical Note Installation MG and rocken launchers on Whirlwind Mk7 from 1962

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0...jA0cXYyR3RLSDg

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brit plumber View Post
    Here you are Kev, photo belongs to getty images, if there is any copyright probs, mods please remove.

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    Thanks for this pic! Now I know what to do when the zipper gives out on my cartridge collection bag.

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