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BV 238-land variant was redesignated the BV 250. BV 246 Hagelkorn: Munition: Glide bomb: 1943: Production: Never used operationally. BV 250: Propeller: Multi-role: 1942: Project: Land version of the BV 238 for transport, bombing and patrol use. BV 726: Jet flying boat: Transport: 1941: Project: Development of the propeller-driven P 200. [3] BV ...
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.
The Blohm & Voss BV 40 was a prototype armoured German glider initially designed in mid-1943 by Blohm & Voss to attack Allied bomber formations during World War II.The BV 40 would be towed to high altitude by single-engined fighters and then ram the bombers while in a dive, but this concept was rejected before its first flight in May 1944 in favour of using its guns.
40 Pounder mounted on an armed train, for naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882. Following the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War, an armed train was employed. One 40 Pounder RBL was mounted onto the train and manned by men of the Royal Navy. It saw some action at the battle of Kassasin on 1 September ...
20 mm (0.79 in) 2 cm/65 C/30 Nazi Germany: World War II 20 mm (0.79 in) 20 mm akan m/40 (Bofors 20 mm automatic gun L/70 model 1940) Sweden: World War II - Cold War 20 mm (0.79 in) 20 mm akan m/45 (Bofors 20 mm automatic gun L/70 model 1945) Sweden: Cold war 25 mm (0.98 in) 25 mm akan m/32 (Bofors 25 mm automatic gun L/64 model 1932) Sweden
RBS 70 Sweden: Surface-to-air missile system: 70 [d] RBS 70 NG on order. RBS 98 [broken anchor] Sweden: Surface-to-air missile system: 16: Four IRIS-T missiles carried on a Bv 410 vehicle. RBS 97 United States: Surface-to-air missile system: Unknown: Service life has been extended. [51] To be replaced by Patriot. [52] Some systems were given to ...
The 20 ItK 40 VKT or 20 mm dual anti-aircraft cannon model 1940 manufactured by VKT was a Finnish light anti-aircraft gun designed by the Finnish gunsmith Aimo Lahti. As the only multi-barrel 20 mm anti-aircraft gun, the 20 ItK 40 VKT was the most effective 20 mm air defence weapon used by the Finnish Army during World War II .
The Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/70 (Swedish: 57 mm sjöautomatkanon L/70 (57 mm SAK 70)), [1] [2] among other names, is a series of dual-purpose naval guns designed and produced by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors (since March 2005 part of BAE Systems AB), designed in the late 1960s as a replacement design for the twin barreled Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/60.