Folks, 40-mm Automatic Gun M1 (AA) and 40-mm Antiaircraft Gun Carriages M2 and M2A1, TM 9-252, 1944, is an Army technical manual for this widely used anti-aircraft gun of WW II.We offer this manual on the web site because it covers the single 40-mm gun used on many small ships.

The 40mm Machine Gun!!! FPSRussia. Loading Unsubscribe from FPSRussia? Bofors 40mm: Since 1932 But Still Excelled In Both Land And Naval Roles - Duration: 8:15. The Bofors 40 Mk4 naval gun system was designed to be an agile, flexible weapon systems that enable a lightning-quick response. Its low weight and compact dimensions combine with a long range and a high rate of fire. It has the capability to rapidly switch between optimised ammunition types, including programmable 40mm 3P all-target ammo. The Boffin mounting was a twin 20 mm Oerlikon Mark V or Mark VC mounting modified to take a single Bofors 40 mm gun. Elevation was -10 to about +70 degrees. These used an oil hydraulic system and were fitted with a gyro gunsight. The 40mm Bofors antiaircraft machine gun has had a short but vital history in the U. S. Navy. First Installations afloat were made In the early summer of 1942. Since that date, Bofors guns have been placed on virtually all combatant ships and on most non-combatant vessels large enough to support the weight of a 40mm assembly. MANUFACTURE OF THE BOFORS 40mm ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN AT CHRYSLER BOFORS GUN TEAM 58844 - Duration: 19:36. PeriscopeFilm 103,409 views. 19:36. DEFENCE UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE WEBSITE ORDNANCE INFORMATION SHEET PROJECTILE - 40MM (BOFORS) Description The 40mm Bofors is an automatic anti-aircraft (AA) gun first manufactured by the Swedish company Bofors in 1930 (40mm L/60) and is the most prolific anti-aircraft weapon ever made. Since the 40's that Portuguese Navy uses the 40 mm Bofors Gun in their ships, first has a anti-aircraft gun (AA) in Frigates and Corvettes, but in the Colonial War the 40mm caliber started to be used as the main gun in patro