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It is composed of two Breda-built Bofors 40 mm firing high explosive (HE) shells, a fire-control radar (Alenia RTN-10X Orion) and a fire-control system (Alenia RTN-20X Orion and Dardo). It is the last of a long series of Italian anti-aircraft weapons derived from the Swedish Bofors 40 mm autocannons (mounted on Breda built gun mounts such as ...
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, [3] [4] see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. The gun was designed as an intermediate anti-aircraft gun, filling the gap between fast firing close-range ...
The 40 CT autocannon The AHS (Ammunition Handling System), a linkless carousel-type feeding system that can be adapted to any turret configuration in terms of shape and capacity. The GCE (Gun Control Equipment), an advanced pointing and stabilization system that ensures high site and bearing performance when firing on the move.
Bofors 40 mm 3P all-target programmable ammunition allows six modes including three proximity fuzing modes.This increases the flexibility and effectiveness of the gun system, which has further reduced the reaction time of the gun and it is possible to choose ammunition mode at the moment of firing, giving it the ability to switch rapidly between surface targets, air targets, and ground targets.
The Bofors 40 mm L/70, like most Bofors autocannons, is based on the same core action as the original Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60, basically being a fire on closing, self-ejecting gun with a recoil-operated autoloader in the same receiver, and thus looks visually similar. Despite this, the Bofors 40 mm L/70 is a separate design with a ...
The Vickers 40 mm Class S gun, [1] [a] also known simply as the Vickers S or S gun, [3] was a 40 mm (1.57 in) airborne autocannon designed by Vickers-Armstrongs for use as aircraft armament. It was primarily used during World War II by British aircraft to attack ground targets. [4] It was largely replaced by the RP-3 rocket from 1943 on.
40×51 mm MV (medium velocity), [2] also known as 40×51 mm extended range low pressure (ERLP), [31] is a NATO-standard [32] [33] high–low grenade launcher cartridge meant for hand-held grenade launchers. Its purpose is to be an intermediate cartridge between the 40×46 mm low-velocity and 40×53 mm high-velocity cartridges and is thus ...
This was a German Stielgranate 41 which had been modified to mount the 40 mm 36M gun instead of the German 3.7 cm Pak 36. It consisted of a German 15 cm hollow charge artillery shell ( I.Gr. 39 Hl/A , German : "Infantrie Granate 39 Hohlladung/A" ) mounted on a fin-stabilized tube meant to fit over the muzzle of the gun, and was launched by the ...