Bofors 40 mm gun

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

Towed variants

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

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