I was in the Royal Navy in the 70's. We still had these as our main weapon on mine hunters/sweepers. I remember once after practice Anti Aircraft shoot, (where a jet towing a drogue passed over at the slowest speed it could manage, or the gun couldn't keep up,) and we had a pretty good go at it. The next day the gunner was stripping the gun and I asked him why; " It worked better than I had ever seen it do so before?" He replied - "Yeah, and I'm trying to find out why."

Who thought the students were going to get clocked by that swinging barrel at 3:35?

@KungPisstank

3 жыл бұрын

Got me too. Too bad they didn't have 3D movies at the time.

@PeterMaddison2483

Жыл бұрын

Yep, that one on the left... Phew!

@johnmeyers8588

Жыл бұрын

For some reason I was thinking about the 3 Stooges when I saw that barrel swing towards that guy!

@foo219

11 ай бұрын

Friend of mine was bonked on the head by a 11 cm artillery piece like that once. And later some genius decided to fire it when he was standing in front of it. So that was twice that he got a concussion from it, in two different ways.

Perfect for "DRONES", every cargo ship should have one!

That does it! The next time I need to blow something out of the sky, I’m using a Bofors anti-aircraft cannon to do it!

@lancecampbell4323

3 жыл бұрын

If I buy one can I get a second for no cost, just a nominal shipping charge?

@Oliverdobbins

3 жыл бұрын

@@lancecampbell4323 No, but if you order one right away, the parts to make a second one will be shipped to you one-by-one every month until you’ve assembled this handsome anti-aircraft gun. Looks very attractive on any high-value target - sure to get admiring glances from passing combatants. A fine addition to any ditch or dugout! It even comes with a monogrammed tarpaulin to chuck over the top when it rains. So give the gift of a Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun this Christmas!

@ozone-xv7hk

3 жыл бұрын

@@Oliverdobbins perfect for everyday practical use, I shall mount one on my roof! After all, it’s hard to focus on everyday life when aircraft keep strafing and bombing my neighborhood. Do you sell proximity-fused 40 mm HE ammunition?

@lena19191

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll just keep with my stick with a piece of shit on the end ...usually keeps most at bay .

@JH-lo9ut

3 жыл бұрын

@@lancecampbell4323 you should perhaps be interested in the quad-mount naval version. Four barrels in one hydraulicly powered mount. This model can also be daisy-chained together via an electro-mechanical fire control computer, for a total of up to eighty barrels simultaneously firing at the same target. A must-have for any battleship captain.

I love the way it can easily be converted to shoot smaller ammo. All you have to do is change all the parts and the barrel, and away you go.

Although I don’t have firsthand experience at firing the Bofers, in Vietnam Nam I was there when the Navy used these guns. At night I could hear”bam bam bam bam bam, shush sh sh sh sh , boom boom boom boom boom” .Somehow it gave me a feeling of security.

@tracylemme1375

3 жыл бұрын

@Kneon Knight The guns I was familiar with were on The Brown Water Navy’s Monitors. The boars were modified LCM-6 landing craft.they were in The Mekong Delta.

Those Swedes certainly seem to know what they’re doing when it comes to technology and military hardware. Quite impressive for a country of only 10 million people.

This made me scratch my head and laugh :-D I did my military service with the m40/48 in 1990 and we used the same trucks and guns as in this video, from 1960... When things are well done, they last.

@JH-lo9ut

3 жыл бұрын

The gun was introduced in 1935 I believe, and is used to this day by many militaries. With the advent of drones in modern warfare, this system may well be able to celebrate it's 100:th birthday before being retired.

@matovicmmilan

3 жыл бұрын

@@JH-lo9ut Oh man I hope no Swede guy heard you!? The WW2 Bofors L60 and the later Bofors L70 are two distinct systems! Please don't talk about these two guns as a single one 😱 😱

@dukecraig2402

3 жыл бұрын

I entered the Army in 1983 as a Vulcan Air Defense gunner, when I went through the US Army Air Defense Museum at Ft Bliss Tx. I stepped around the corner inside the building and there was a single mount 40mm Bofor gun, next to it was a sign stating that it was the very gun used in the movie 1941, Columbia Pictures had located it and restored it to full working order, after the filming of the movie they donated it to the US Army Air Defense Museum. I couldn't believe I was standing there looking at the very gun that Ned Beatty blew up his house with in the movie, it's also in the scenes where Lenny and Squiggy are manning it on top of a building in downtown Los Angels.

@jfan4reva

2 жыл бұрын

@@matovicmmilan The Swedes made so many of both (and, being neutral, sold to both sides of many conflicts) and they were so well made, that a lot of soldiers/sailors have posted about discovering they were using WWII Bofors 30 years later.

@kjelllindberg6987

5 ай бұрын

Nope, The trucks used then were TGB 30 or maybe TGB40. And for sure was the 40/48 towed by a TGB30 that is for sure a rather different truck.

I fervently hope that the repair tools and parts kit include a couple of those spiffy lab coats.

I need a couple of these on my front lawn for home self defense.

@hansericsson7058

Ай бұрын

Me too.

My Dad used the old manual version in Normandy 1944.

@PeterMaddison2483

Жыл бұрын

My Dad wanted to join when the war was on but was told he was doing an important job (coal miner). So he waited until the war was over and joined in 1950. I just found out he started in 57 Reg RA but came out 22/34 Reg RA 11 Sphinx Bty after 23 years and a Sgt.

That was cool. Thank you for sharing it.

I like the bow tie the Bofors teacher is using @ 2:55 ! Old School style.

@videodistro

3 жыл бұрын

My dad taught electronics in college from 1957 to 78. He also wore a bow tie in the 60's and a clip on in the 70's. Mainly because they were safer around shop tools!

That was genuinely interesting and I learned a few things. The transistor amp upgrade for example. Also, this is the only mention I have ever seen of APDS ammo for the L70 Bofors or of the conversion kits to allow using up old stocks of L60 ammo. Pretty advanced stuff in 1960.

I really like this program

This film is just right for a Harry Enfield version

I hate fungus on my Anti Aircraft weapons....😏

@JoeFromDetroit

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!!

@mugofbrown6234

3 жыл бұрын

There's an ointment for that.

@MH-fb5kr

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta keep your powder dry!

When you care enough to send the very best... in 1960.

this is great thanks

@PeriscopeFilm

2 жыл бұрын

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Loved the gun, but the exquisite background music sold it. Is the soundtrack for sale?

1960? Same year as the US Army was demonstrating their newest helicopters, wire guided missiles, and Jeep-mounted radio-controlled jet-powered DRONES.... The US had great 40mm Bofors and fire control guidance in WW2... and even 5" guns with proximity fuses in AA shells.... And fun fact... IIRC, during the Falklands Conflict, the British warships were shooting at the Argentine jets with 40mm Bofors. I think.

@user-bs1lr8nx1h

Жыл бұрын

shoting a clip had 1% chance to down an aircraft in ww 2 - so I guess they went with the chance of downing a million dollar jet with a cheap clip of 40mm

@indiefjant

16 күн бұрын

Ok? What’s your point? Does all that you mentioned somehow make the Bofors 40mm less of a formidable weapon system or something? They’re all great achievements. It’s not a pissing contest. Again, what is your point?

Man, that music. Very Fallout.

@christopherharding2363

Жыл бұрын

Came for the pics, stayed for the tunez.

I will need to upgrade my vehicle before I purchase one because I don't think my Buick is up to the job of towing the weapon.

Just what I need to keep the V1s out of my garden.

From my time in a LAA Sqd ,you would need about one hundred of these Bofore to have any chance of shooting down a aircraft ,because ours where never Radar controlled ,but you would probably scare the shit out of anyone wanting to flying over you .

@kevinnorthfield5097

2 жыл бұрын

my dad was on these when he was in the RAF Regiment

@PeterMaddison2483

Жыл бұрын

What were you in?

Wonder if these are available on the surplus market? With one of these, I could fire a salute every sunrise and sunset. ( Much to the discomfort of my neighbors )

@cokergx3

Жыл бұрын

Expensive way to do colors.

@SonsOfLorgar

2 күн бұрын

There is at least one in private ownership in the US according to an old Forgotten Weapons video.

Imagine mounting one in the old pickup. That will move those damn Priuses out of the fast lane

@SonsOfLorgar

2 күн бұрын

*TriDon2

If my math is right, half a meter dispersion at 600 meters is about 3 MOA. That’s not that far off a sniper rifle and better than the average battle rifle. Not bad for a freaking cannon.

@shaku2182

3 жыл бұрын

1bishw According to my calculations it is 5.73 MOA, as the true dispersion at 600m is 1 meter/1000mm.. The RADIUS of the circle (with 40mm Bofors gun) is 0.5m/500mm at 600m. Thus the CIRCLE of the Dispersion at 600m is one meter/1000mm. (One MOA at 100 m is ca. 29.1mm.)

@1bishw

3 жыл бұрын

Your doing the same thing I did and are over thinking it. It is exactly 3 MOA. A half inch group at 100 yards is .5 MOA so a 3 inch group at 600 yards is 3 MOA. Meters would work out to the exact same MOA. The designers of this gun were giving it a 3 MOA accuracy as everything was determined at that time, but were explaining it in layman’s terms because most people don’t know what MOA is.

@dukecraig2402

3 жыл бұрын

@@1bishw A half inch group at 100 yards isn't exactly .5 MOA, it's close but not exact. People assume because of paper targets that 1 MOA at 100 yards equals 1 inch, it doesn't, it actually equals 1.047 inches. Hunting deer and sighting in a rifle for it and 1 inch at 100 yards is accurate enough, but when you start dealing with the distances that aircraft are shot at then that .047 extra adds up and makes the difference between a hit and a miss. Trust me, I used to be in that line of work, I was an Air Defense gunner in the Army.

@PeterMaddison2483

7 ай бұрын

That's why the Royal Artillery are called long-range snipers 😆

@kjelllindberg6987

5 ай бұрын

In real life, they did perform better after a few rounds. So much so that it was a problem when firing at airplanes with proximity fuses. Later AA-systems have dispersion patterns programmed during firing.

What dealership can I test drive this mamma jamma!?

Wait, "Topic includes Space Exploration"? I want to know about that!

We had alot of these in Sweden and when Baltic states freed them self from the Soviets we gave them some of these they are now serving in Ukraine by the way, the rest ended up in the CV9040, 51 of them went to Ukraine as well. I hope they comes to good use by the way.

@SonsOfLorgar

2 күн бұрын

According to the grapevine, the muskovites have learned that the only thing they have that has a chance of handling the CV9040Cs are MBTs 😂

Narrator,Harry Henfield.

03:25 - well that's one test of accuracy: has it clattered four guys? No. Great.

“Shockproofness”?

DOES IT COME IN FUSCHIA

no proximity rounds?

@KungPisstank

3 жыл бұрын

Probably too small to fit anything fancy in them at the time, or too expensive compared to their (explosive) power to motivate it (today it's of course a different story: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKCY0JuBpt3PmJc.html).

@christerolsson4020

2 жыл бұрын

During World War II, one of the sights measured the distance to the target and they chose a cassette with four shots that were set to detonate after a certain distance. The first shot detonates last, and the subsequent ones earlier. In this way, approximately 150 meters of distance per shed are covered. The four shots detonate around the same time at the target. Around the cannon, cassettes were stored with different preset distances according to a certain system. The shooting was made by the visibility via optics seeing how the track light on the shots passed the target, much like when aiming with a water hose.

@A.G.798

Жыл бұрын

Die U.S. Navy, verwendet nur auf dem Asiatischen Kriegsschauplatz 40mm. Granaten mit Elektrischen Annäherungszünder, und nur auf Schiffen aus Geheimhaltungsgründen ab ende '44, diese waren sehr Erfolgreich besonders gegen Kamikaze Angriffe. Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel, die Stuka-Legände hat durch eine sowjetisches 40 mm. Geschoss im Februar '45 seinen rechten Unterschenkel verloren.

Does anyone know who the narrator was/is?

So a gun, that seemingly didn't have proximity fused shells, needed 'mains' electricity and electronic control input; so without a generator and a radar set with a computer; which are not shown; it's a tube on wheels? And without proximity fuses it only has a tiny chance of hitting a hostile aircraft, even with electricity and radar's help.

@KungPisstank

3 жыл бұрын

They could still be manually operated and in that day most air attacks were still conducted by making an approach straight at the target (in "horizontal terms"). You can probably assume that the people who bought tons of these weren't complete idiots.

@channelfogg6629

2 жыл бұрын

@@KungPisstank 'You can probably assume that the people who bought tons of these weren't complete idiots.' - I very much doubt that, seeing how miitary procurement is a perpetual rip-off.

@KungPisstank

2 жыл бұрын

@@channelfogg6629 It sure as hell is, but the corruption was likely less universal in the 1960s (and probably not even very significant in the WW2/build-up period when these guns initially made a big name for themselves). And regardless, a lot of militaries have used them so even though decisions are often influenced by bribes you'd have to explain why they had such good sales compared to other systems for which bribes would also be available (And Swedish companies tend in general to engage less in bribery, not to say that they don't at all, they certainly do as has been widely reported on).

@McShaggswell

Жыл бұрын

It's very embarrassing to have your troops dunked on by the Soviets so cold war Britain absolutely would not have bought a weapon system that wasn't at least somewhat effective.

@kjelllindberg6987

5 ай бұрын

It can be operated fully manually. It can also be operated with only external electricity so hydraulics turn everything. Or fully remotely controlled by a fire-control system. And it for sure had proximity fuses for AA-firing...

By 1960, weren't anti-aircraft guns like this becoming obsolete? Because of high-speed jet aircraft becoming the norm?

@crumplezone1

3 жыл бұрын

@@jogreeen A bit like the covid nightingale hospitals during covid 2020 :)

@jogreeen

3 жыл бұрын

@@crumplezone1 Orange man gone.

@ignatiusp.1764

3 жыл бұрын

Vietnam War? Didn't the NVA uses manually aimed AA guns? Though I guess SAM sites, radars, and interceptors is also a few helping reason why people said NVA's AA defense is one of the best in the world at the time.

@dukecraig2402

3 жыл бұрын

No, by adding a ranging radar and putting the gun on a computer sighting assisted mount then you're back in the ball game. I was a crewman on an M163A1 Self Propelled Vulcan Gun, it had a system with a reflective reticle sight that you'd put right on the target while tracking, then you'd depress the foot switch to activate the radar, it would bounce a signal off of the aircraft while you were tracking it and after about 2 seconds you'd get a tone in your CVC helmet and a light at the bottom sight would come on, at the same time the gun would jump forward and elevate enough to allow for lead and bullet drop according to a firing solution that the computer came up with. Even then there's a little bit more to it then that, there was 2 dials one was for setting the days air density and the other was for your elevation above sea level, those two are variables that if you don't dial in exact then you'll probably miss, since the computer had no way of telling what the air density and elevation were we'd have to radio into command requesting what the settings were for that day.

@leehotspur9679

2 жыл бұрын

No not in RN Because these guns were multi roll Sea cat was used in 60sbut you would not fire that at a Gun runner or another craft

Boring and outdated. Brilliant video.