The Bantam (Bofors ANti-TAnk Missile) or Robot 53 (Rb 53) was a Swedish wire-guided, manual command to line of sight, anti-tank missile developed in the...
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Bofors 155 mm Field Howitzer 77 BW L/39 L/52 (Archer) Bofors 283 mm Naval Gun L/45 (incomplete list) BANTAM (Bofors Anti Tank Missile) BILL (Bofors Infantry...
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and sighting device and discarded after one use. Examples include, Bofors Bantam, BGM-71 TOW, 9M113 Konkurs, Panzerfaust 3, 9M133 Kornet, etc. Portable...
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the Pansarvärnsrobotterrängbil 9032 (Pvrbtgb 9032) and fitted with a Bofors Bantam ATGM. There were some deliveries of a version for fire fighting, called...
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nuclear stand off missile (United Kingdom) Blue Streak (United Kingdom) Bofors Bantam BrahMos (India-Russia; World's fastest cruise missile) Brakemine UK...
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of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role....
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that year being male. The first winner was Ian Holm for his role in The Bofors Gun. The most recent winner is Robert Downey Jr. for his role in Oppenheimer...
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Argentine 105-mm recoilless rifles. In design it is similar to the Swedish BANTAM by Bofors - which is reported to have been bought in limited numbers for the...
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9 in) guns twin-mounted in three turrets, as well as two twin-mounted 40 mm Bofors guns. As built, she also had two twin-mounted .50 calibre machine guns,...
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1945, all six Oerlikons were replaced with single 40-millimetre (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns. During a modernisation starting in 1949, the aft 4.7-inch...
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(1.6 in) Bofors guns in five powered twin-gun mounts and seven manually operated 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon cannons. The forward pair of Bofors mounts were...
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(warhead made by Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland Ltd, former RUAG) Missile Moyenne Portée ("MMP" or "Akeron MP", warhead made by Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland...
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warhead in 2007 and maintained the activity locally. NLAW Saab Bofors Dynamics Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland Thales Air Defence UK Sweden Switzerland...
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(1976). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan. New York: Bantam. ISBN 9780553010503.; also Naval Institute Press, March 2001, ISBN 978-1-55750-217-9...
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July 1945, she torpedoed and sank the submarine chaser Cha-117 (ex-Dutch Bantam) off the northeast coast of Bali (08°10′S 115°29′E / 8.167°S 115.483°E...
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were armed with a single Bofors 40 mm gun or an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. Aveley seems to have been initially armed with a Bofors gun, but by 1979, was recorded...
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four QF 4 inch Mk XVI guns in 2 twin mounts, with a close-in armament of a Bofors 40 mm gun and six Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The ship's depth charge load had...
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VT196 = CV509 = 6V6G – General Post Office (GPO) Swedish Military supplier Bofors, had tubes made by Standard Radiofabrik (SRF) at the Ulvsunda plant in Stockholm...
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Missile) Launcher Shahine Stationary SAM (Surface-To-Air Missile) Launcher Bofors 40 mm L/70 AAA (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) Oerlikon-Buhrle Twin 35 mm GDF...
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Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311 Blair, Clay. Silent Victory (Philadelphia: Bantam, 1976), p.899 "First Mustang Victory Credit - Hollis Hills", Armchair General...
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weapons, but do not include 47mm guns, which are counted as anti-tank guns. Bofors 37 mm, 45 or 50 calibers barrel length : 23 pieces, of them 12 imported...
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of 152 mm guns, one section of 47 mm Škoda guns and one section of 40 mm Bofors AA guns (each section had two guns). The Romanian riverine artillery took...
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battery was again revised, now consisting of ten quadruple 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns and forty-three 20 mm Oerlikons, all in single mounts. The changes...
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The AC-130H "Spectre" was armed with two 20 mm M61 Vulcan cannons, one Bofors 40 mm autocannon, and one 105 mm M102 howitzer. The Huey is a military helicopter...
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firepower. The Illustrated history of the Vietnam War 15. Toronto, ON: Bantam Books. pp. 152–153. ISBN 978-0-553-34549-0. OCLC 18136888. Ezell, Edward...
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BAS launch, which was used to unload the cargo. Among other supplies were Bantam anti-tank missiles and a recoilless rifle; heavy equipment that had to be...
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ISBN 0-393-32269-6. Rose, Alexander (2008). American Rifle: A Biography. New York City: Bantam Dell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-553-80517-8. Stevens, R. Blake (1995). U.S....
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became Leyland, finally Marshall (Tractors) Bobbette (USA) Boenker (USA) Bofors (Sweden) Bohrer Bolgar (Bulgaria) Bolinder (Sweden) – merged with Munktell...
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Control System. Her anti-aircraft battery was made up by ten 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors guns and seven 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons, each guided by a Mark 51...
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greater heights. The light guns, about half of which were of the excellent Bofors 40 mm, dealt with aircraft only up to 6,000 ft (1,800 m). Although the use...
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