The following is a very short video featuring the then-new FN FAL in UK service. The rear sight looks somewhat primitive. Was this ever used in service?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT435uvS0js
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The following is a very short video featuring the then-new FN FAL in UK service. The rear sight looks somewhat primitive. Was this ever used in service?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT435uvS0js
Checked a Skennerton book and I think that was a trials thing only. Canada ended up doing the drawings a couple of years later and by then they went with folding rear sights. Canada's version had a disk with apertures drilled in to it to adjust range(somewhat similar to Spanish FR7/FR8 rears) while the British and Australian rears were usually a ramped rear base to adjust range. Haven't looked through a Canadian rear, but the British and Australian rears used a larger aperture(not like 0-2 aperture, just larger) than the usual Belgian rears used by most everyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slater
I think Britain was really the only 1 of the 3 to issue scopes much with the Sight Unit Infantry Trilux. I think it may have been Britain that also issued some rear sights with a large/small aperture setup kind of like the Magpul MBUS rears use....I think that may have been more like 2 leaves instead of a plug in reducer also.
The cocking handle in that video also got changed to a folding version on the Commonwealth rifles.