The inspiration for the 40mm Bofors gun traces back to the 1920s ... fired using primer ignition blowback in a very large machine gun to fire 300 rounds per minute. Fast-forward to 1934 and ...

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 ...

Bofors, forty millimetre anti aircraft gun on ... four round clips of ready to use 40mm ammunition. The gunner sits on the port side of the mount, partly protected in an aluminium bin. Using a two ...

Taut, icy direction and acting flawlessly tuned to what the writer [John McGrath, from his play Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun]has in mind bring a faultless realism. Clash is between David ...