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The gun was designed as an intermediate anti-aircraft gun, filling the gap between fast firing close-range small calibre anti-aircraft guns and slower firing long-range high calibre anti-aircraft guns. For its time, the Bofors 40 mm L/60 was perfectly suited for this role and outperformed competing designs in the years leading up to World War ...
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. 8th KOYLI left 218th Bde on 6 November 1941 and transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA) to begin retraining in the light anti-aircraft (LAA) role: on 15 November it became 94th LAA Regiment, consisting of Regimental Headwquarters (RHQ) and 323–325 LAA Batteries, equipped with Bofors 40 mm guns.
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. The unit was designated 119th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment with 390, 391 and 392 LAA Batteries. [6] After initial training it joined Anti-Aircraft Command in February, but left in May before it had been assigned to a brigade. [7] [8]
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. 11th Buffs left 219th Bde on 3 November 1941 and transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA) to begin retraining in the light anti-aircraft (LAA) role, equipped with Bofors 40 mm guns: on 15 November it became 89th LAA Regiment with 308–310 LAA Batteries.
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70, [1] (Bofors 40 mm L/70, Bofors 40 mm/70, Bofors 40/70 and the like), is a multi-purpose autocannon developed by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors (today BAE Systems Bofors) during the second half of the 1940s as a modern replacement for their extremely successful World War II-era Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun-design.
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. After initial training the regiment joined Anti-Aircraft Command, but left in February 1942 before it had been allocated to a brigade. [6] At first it formed part of the War Office Reserve, but by April it came under XI Corps District in East Anglia.
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. On 1 January 1942, 9th Green Howards transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA) to begin retraining in the light anti-aircraft (LAA) role as 108th LAA Regiment, consisting of Regimental HQ (RHQ) and 354, 355 and 356 LAA Batteries equipped with the Bofors 40 mm gun.
12th Royal Welch Fusiliers was converted into a light anti-aircraft (LAA) regiment of the RA, which officially came into existence on 1 January 1942. It consisted of Regimental Headquarters (RHQ) and 380, 381 and 382 Batteries, equipped with Bofors 40 mm guns.