Jock Auld Posted October 6, 2014 Posted October 6, 2014 Guys, This is obviously ok but my library has let me down, it reminds me of the British bofors 40mm AA Gun cartrige? Did the Germans capture them in quantity enough to be used perhaps at Dunkirk? If so we did not carry out our distruction of equipment drills correctly. I remember reading the Gun Drill book as a kid thinking I would like to give it a go, load a reversed shell unfused and fire on charge super by lanyard that would be fun. Still J (Sidi Rezegh) Battery managed something similar in BATUS around 1994/5 if my memory serves me well. The gun bunnies blew up a 'nasty' AS90. Luckily now serious injury, I digress, sorry! Jock
Chris Boonzaier Posted October 6, 2014 Posted October 6, 2014 That looks veeeery much like a Bofors indeed!!
Chris Boonzaier Posted October 6, 2014 Posted October 6, 2014 Called the L/70 by the Bundeswehr germans... probably earlier as well? http://www.geschichte.luftwaffe.de/portal/a/geschlw/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP3I5EyrpHK9nPL49NTi5Iyccr3yxLS0VL3EpPLUjCK9tJzEbBMD_YJsR0UA6_hWLQ!!/
Chris Boonzaier Posted October 6, 2014 Posted October 6, 2014 Captured examples The Wehrmacht used a number of Bofors guns which had been captured in Poland and France. The Kriegsmarine also operated some guns obtained from Norway. In German naval use, the gun was designated the "4 cm Flak 28", and was used aboard the cruisers Admiral Hipper and Prinz Eugen toward the end of the war.[6] Beginning in 1942, several E-boats were equipped with the Flak 28 to enable them to fight against British MGBs and MTBs on equal terms. Japan captured a number of Bofors guns in Singapore and put them into production as the Type 5. Both Japan and West Germany continued to use the Bofors gun throughout the Cold War. The Federal German navy used it in destroyers, frigates, and fast patrol boats until 1984, in minesweepers to the present day.
Jock Auld Posted October 6, 2014 Author Posted October 6, 2014 (edited) Chris, A good link, I shall have to do some digging on the case, perhaps it's for a different weapon system but it is dated 42 so they may have proffed them from us? jock Edited October 6, 2014 by Jock Auld
Jock Auld Posted October 6, 2014 Author Posted October 6, 2014 Chris, Looks like we posted at the axact same time and you have resolved it already, Cheers. Thanks jock
Mervyn Mitton Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 The Bofors was a Swedish 40mm gun in origin. They obviously sold the design to many countries. We had them in Australia and I did my National Service on them. Wonderful multi-purpose weapon. Mervyn
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