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Old 12-08-22, 04:59
ChaseR83 ChaseR83 is offline
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Default Besa bow gun mounting?

Hello,

Does anybody have any good drawings or pictures (from the inside) of the flexible bow gun mounting of a Besa on a tank? I'm assuming that mounting was similar on all British tanks that mounted the Besa in a bow position.

What kind of sight/optic did the mounting use?

Thank you.
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Old 12-08-22, 11:05
Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline
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It wasn’t the same on all tanks: the Churchill had a kind of squarish internal gun shield while the Cromwell and Comet used a ball mount, for example. I’m not having any luck finding pictures of the latter two online, though here’s a video that shows the Churchill’s Besa mounting:

https://youtu.be/fKX_MzRVi1A?t=282
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