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Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70

Multi-purpose autocannon developed by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors (today BAE Systems.

Fort Amherst defends Chatham Dockyard in Kent. It is the home of Medway Historical Ordnance. 40 mm Bofors Anti aircraft gun. Manufactured under license by MTG a
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About the L/70

The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70, (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 World War II-era Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun-design.

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