This shell was made specifically for the Bofors light ack-ack (40mm) gun which was designed in Sweden and used by both sides. My father was a member of a 10 man ack-ack gun team, firstly in the ...

With three side-firing weapons, a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors cannon, and a 105mm howitzer, it's easy to see why it got its name. (03:07) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Pa ...

The MK19 40mm machine gun is an air-cooled, disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, blowback operated, fully automatic weapon and is crew transportable over short distances with limited amounts of ...

Her arsenal of nine 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns, twenty 5-inch/38 caliber guns mounted in twin-gun dual purpose turrets, ...

Twelve 5-inch guns, seventeen 40mm Bofors quad anti-aircraft guns, and sixty-five 20mm cannons were capable of putting out a ferocious wall of lead against any attacking aircraft. Should an ...

In a startling revelation this week, B M Oza, India's ambassador to Sweden between 1984 and 1988, has accused then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of having taken bribes to sign the Bofors gun deal.

A 40mm Bofors light anti-aircraft gun at North Head. Photo Australian War Memorial AWM06474 But the massive guns at North Head were never fired in anger and the guns were removed in the early ...

TASS/. Lithuania has started supplying the armed forces of Ukraine with Bofors L70 multi-purpose weapons of Swedish origin, the Baltic country’s Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has said.

The ROU 10 has a displacement of 170 tons measuring 33.10 meters in length and 6.92 meters in beam, with a 40mm Bofors cannon as her main armament, in addition to 20mm and 12.7mm Sea Vulcan ...

The CV90 can also traverse difficult terrain, comes with a much more powerful 40 mm Bofors L/70 autocannon or 35 mm/50 ...

In a startling revelation this week, B M Oza, India's ambassador to Sweden between 1984 and 1988, has accused then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of having taken bribes to sign the Bofors gun deal.