• Bofors gun and saw service on both land and sea. It became so widely known that anti-aircraft guns in general were often referred to as Bofors guns....
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  • The Bofors Gun is a 1968 British drama film directed by Jack Gold and starring Nicol Williamson, David Warner, Ian Holm and John Thaw. It was written by...
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    The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft...
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    The Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/70 (Swedish: 57 mm sjöautomatkanon L/70 (57 mm SAK 70)), among other names, is a series of dual-purpose naval guns...
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  • company Bofors: Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/43 - developed in the 1930s with market entry in 1934, widely used in World War II and into the 1990s Bofors 40...
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    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...
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    The Bofors 37 mm anti-tank gun was an anti-tank gun designed by Swedish manufacturer Bofors in the early 1930s originally for Swedish use. It was exported...
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    created_at + (13 July 2013). "Bofors scam: Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi dies". NDTV.com. Retrieved 14 March 2014. "Bofors gun helped India win against...
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    40 mm 3P, the gun can also fire other Bofors 40 mm L/70 ammunition and has the capability to rapidly switch between ammunition. Bofors 40 mm Mk 4 L: Proposed...
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    Mark V for the Oerlikon 20 mm cannon and the "Boffin" mounting for the Bofors 40 mm gun. Magazines ranged from 140 rounds per gun for the eight-barrelled...
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  • The Bofors 57 mm gun is a nickname or designation given to several types of guns designed and developed by the Swedish company Bofors: Bofors 57 mm anti-tank...
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    Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/60 (Swedish: 57 mm sjöautomatkanon L/60 (57 mm SAK 60)), also known as 57 mm/60 (2.25") SAK Model 1950 and the like...
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    Bofors 120 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/50 (full English name: Bofors 120 mm Automatic Gun L/50 In Naval Twin Turret), also known as Bofors 120 mm gun model...
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    Bofors 75 mm and Bofors 80 mm were two closely related designs of anti-aircraft and general-purpose artillery. Less well known than the 40 mm quick-firing...
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    Bofors 120 mm Automatic Gun L/46, most commonly referred to as either Bofors FAK 120 or Bofors TAK 120 depending on the configuration (field gun vs naval...
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    Recoil-operated guns, e.g. many machine guns, the Bofors gun, and gas-operated guns, e.g. most assault rifles, the ShVAK cannon, depend upon the firing of the cartridges...
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    Ian Holm (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    King Lear, and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). Holm gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968), winning the BAFTA Award...
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  • The Bofors 120 mm gun is a nickname or designation given to several types of guns designed and developed by the Swedish company Bofors: Bofors 120 mm Automatic...
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    The Bofors 57 mm anti-tank gun was an anti-tank gun that was designed by Bofors during the mid 1940s and was designated the 57 mm Pvkan m/43. The gun...
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    Haubits FH77 (redirect from Bofors howitzer)
    developed and manufactured by Bofors. It is also colloquially known as the Bofors gun in India. There were several versions, the original (sometimes referred...
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    with two Bofors 40 mm guns. It was produced by Cadillac and Massey Ferguson of Canada near the end of 1944. The M19 was developed from the T65 which...
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    The Bofors 25 mm M/32 was a Swedish- designed and built light anti-aircraft gun that was used aboard ships of the Swedish Navy during the Second World...
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    The Bofors 75 mm mountain gun was a German-designed and Swedish-built mountain gun of the interwar years that was used during the Second World War. In...
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    The Bofors 283 mm M/12 naval gun was a naval rifle of 283 millimetres (11.1 in) and 45 calibers used as the main battery of the Swedish Sverige-class...
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    The Bofors 75 mm Model 1934 was a mountain gun produced in Sweden by Bofors and sold abroad widely. The Model 1934 was used by Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands...
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  • Geoffrey Hughes (actor) (category Deputy lieutenants of the Isle of Wight)
    credits included Smashing Time (1967), The Bofors Gun (1968), Till Death Us Do Part (1969), The Virgin Soldiers (1969), The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)...
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    an 85 mm M1938 and developed the 37 mm M1939 (61-K), which appears to have been copied from the Bofors 40 mm. A Bofors 25 mm, essentially a scaled down...
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  • appearance in the sitcom The Golden Age in 1967 and made his cinematic debut in Jack Gold's The Bofors Gun the following year. He appeared in the anthology...
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  • recoilless gun Carl-Gustaf M3 (M3 MAAWS) 84 mm anti-tank recoilless rifle RBS-56 Bill ATGM RBS 56 Bill 2 ATGM NLAW ATGM Bofors 40 mm Saab Bofors Dynamics...
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    batteries. In the later part of the war the 37 mm gun was typically replaced by the 40 mm Bofors gun M1. One or two gun units were coupled to the M5 gun director...
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