Descripción

  • Most riflemen are armed with the .303-calibre Short Magazine Lee–Enfield (SMLE, aka. ‘Smelly’), a reliable and accurate weapon, although relatively slow firing
  • The rifle platoon’s main firepower comes from its three accurate and reliable .303-calibre Bren light machine-guns
  • Each rifleman carries four spare magazines for his section’s Bren in two chest pouches on his webbing gear
  • The slow-firing .55-calibre bolt-action Boys anti-tank rifle is too cumbersome to use easily on the move and is best fired prone, using its bipod
  • The SBML (smooth-bore muzzle-loading) 2-inch mortar conducts overhead fire, throwing a 1kg (2lb) high-explosive bomb in an arcing trajectory, down onto the heads of the enemy, making it excellent at knocking out dug-in enemy troops
  • Contains 11x Infantry Teams