Grenade Luncher ranges?

[Legbreaker]

I do believe it's exactly the same C2 sight too that we had. I was in an infantry platoon so didn't get a lot of exposure to it - name certainly rings a bell though.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Yep, it was definitely the C2 sight. Army Australia - the only place where you have an American machinegun (the M60) mounted on a British tripod (the L4 I think it was) and used with a Canadian sight (the C2), the only Australian part was the ammunition and the guy pulling the trigger!

[perardua]

Good to see the colonies sharing, at least.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Almost any machinegun that can be tripod mounted can be fired in an indirect role.

I feel cheated; we were never trained to do that!

[Legbreaker]

I never received formal training, but since one of my father of one of my mates was the Support Company Sargeant Major...
And our own company SgtMaj was an old machinegunner himself....
Well, lets just say informal opportunities to learn new things came along on a regular basis.

There's nothing as much fun as a 100 round burst from a tripod - except maybe a few hundred kilos of ANFO loaded into an old car body...
Car? What car?

[perardua]

I was never on guns myself but we did get a familiarisation on the sustained fire role so we could assist the guys who were. It was pretty similar to aiming a mortar, as I recall.

[Legbreaker]

Exact same sighting system, in fact we "borrowed" them from the mortar plattoon for the "training".

Basically if you can fire a mortar, and know how to use the machinegun (and who in an infantry unit doesn't?) you can fire it indirect in the SFMG role.