anti-aircraft guns

• Anti-aircraft guns


  • Capable of rapid high rate fire
  • Capable of firing at high angles
• Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun


  • Developed by a Swedish manufacturer in the 1930s
  • British government acquired a license to build these guns and put them into service
• Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun

  1. Fire 120 rounds per minute

  2. Fire a round (a two pound cneu) to a height of two miles above the ground