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4 unusual facts about Bofors


AT-12

AT12, (AT12T) a man portable 120mm disposable anti-tank weapon manufactured by Bofors.

Comet tank

It involved replacing the turret with an open mounting with the Bofors 90 mm Pv-1110 recoilless rifle.

Eastbourne Pier

During the Second World War, part of the decking was removed and machine guns were installed in the theatre providing a useful point from where to repel any attempted enemy landings and a Bofors anti-aircraft gun was sited midway along the length of the pier.

Pansarbandvagn 301

It was a typical "battle taxi", armed with a 20 mm Bofors gun and with room for transporting 8 fully armed soldiers.


41st Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery

On 1 May 1948, a sub-unit battery of 3 Composite Anti-Aircraft Regiment with 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns and searchlights was raised at Southport, Queensland.

ASRAD-R

The effector is the latest version of the Saab Bofors Dynamics RBS 70 surface-to-air missile, called Bolide.

BAE Systems AB

In September 2000 United Defense Industries (UDI) purchased Bofors Weapon Systems from Saab (the tube artillery interests), while Saab retained the missile interests.

Bofors 40 mm gun

They saw service in North West Europe, where six SP Bofors of 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, landed with the British 3rd Infantry Division on Sword Beach on D-Day to protect the vital bridges over the Caen Canal and Orne River (Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge), shooting down 17 German planes.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon

Earlier on the day he had a meeting with the CEO of Nobel Industrier (the new owners of Bofors), Anders Carlberg, about the allegations of smuggling against the company.

Končar-class missile boat

The stern Bofors 57 mm gun was also due to be removed and replaced by a CIWS AK-630M unit.

Limbic Software

The player can choose to use a 25mm Gatling gun, 40mm Bofors auto-cannon, and a 105mm Howitzer cannon, all of which all can be upgraded to enhance damage radius, faster cooling time, faster reload, faster firing rate, and bullet speed.

NASAMS

Until the late 1990s the RNoAF ground based air defence solution, also known as the Norwegian Solution (NORSOL), consisted of three different weapon systems; the 40mm Bofors L70 gun (controlled by the Oerlikon Contraves FCS2000 monopulse doppler tracking radar), the laser beam riding RBS 70 MANPADS system and the NASAMS.

Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon

This undoubtedly inspired their Morris C9/B (officially the "Carrier, SP, 4x4, 40 mm AA"), a Bofors 40 mm AA gun mounted on a chassis derived from the Morris "Quad" Field Artillery Tractor truck.


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