Bofors 40 mm gun

The Bofors 40 mm gun is a famous anti-aircraft autocannon designed by the Swedish firm of Bofors.

Towed variants

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  Bofors gun in at position on a mound overlooking the beach in Algeria, 1943.
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  Marines at drill with three 40 mm Bofors guns, Chatham Camp, Colombo, Ceylon, September 1943
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  Members of Battery A, 4520 AA stand by and check their equipment while the convoy takes a break, 11/09/1944
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  Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel.
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  Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel.
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  Bofors 40 mm L70 anti-aircraft gun in Muzeyon Heyl ha-Avir, Israel.
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  Bofors 40 mm L70 anti-aircraft gun in Muzeyon Heyl ha-Avir, Israel.
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  Lock of the Polish-made Bofors 40 mm gun, discovered after the war somewhere in Warsaw (hence the colour of oxidised steel), Muzeum Wojska Polskiego
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  Finnish gun in Suomenlinna Military Museum, Helsinki
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  Finnish Bofors
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  British Q.F. 40 mm Mk. 1
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  Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa.
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  Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa.
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  Bofors in Saint Petersburg Artillery museum, Russia.

Naval variants

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  LST-325 (left) and LST-388 unloading while stranded at low tide during resupply operations, 12 June 1944.
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  Pacific Fleet Cruiser 40mm gun crew (right foreground) stand alert, Asan Beachhead. July 21, 1944.
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  40 mm guns firing aboard USS HORNET, 16 February 1945.
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  From the bridge of an MTB showing the aft Bofors gun and MTB 378 at speed astern in the Mediterranean.
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  40mm gun of the swift patrol boat Glaive, 2 July 2003
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  Waffen auf dem Heck eines deutschen Schnellbootes der Jaguar-Klasse
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  Canadian Boffin mounting
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  Canadian Boffin mounting on HMCS Haida
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  40 mm ammunition on HMCS Haida
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  Canadian Boffin mounting on HMCS Haida
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  A coast guard ship Koskelo
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  Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa.
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  Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa.
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  Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa.
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  HMAS Castlemaine.
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  HMS Belfast.

See also

• Crusader AA.
• M42 Duster.
• M247 Sergeant York.