Naval Legends: Bofors | World of Warships 

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When I heard they made 6 barreled mounts I was like: *they not just trying to destroy the airplanes in the sky, they are trying to destroy the sky itself*

6-barrel Bofors mounts: For when you absolutely, positively need to kill every bloody thing in the entire sky.

The 6-barrel Bofors mounts in a nutshell: The enemy can't gain air superiority, if there's no air for them to gain superiority

Love it, still better than what the multimillion dollar History Channel produces.

12:36 "He's going down! Cease fire!" "Keep firing!" "But he's split in half, Lieutenant! "Keep firing!"

Azur Lane Players: Ah Yes WoW Players: Ah Yes Allies: AH YES

6-barrel Bofors mounts.... I have a shivering feeling that the enemy isn't the aircraft in the sky The enemy is the sky itself

So the man named for the Nobel Peace prize owned a weapons factory?

The Bofors is an iconic piece. As an Air Force pilot, I was fortunate to get the AC130H Spectre Gunship as my assignment out of UPT. I was not disappointed. Our aircraft carried two hard mounted M61 Vulcan 20mm rotary cannons, with a cyclic rate of 3,000 rounds per minute, each. They were mounted aft of where the crew entrance door is located on a stock (slick) C130. Our 105mm Howitzer was mounted aft in the left paratroop door and the Bofors 40mm was mounted just aft of the left wheel well, forward of the 105. The cyclic rate of the Bofors was approximately 100 rounds per minute, with a muzzle velocity of around 3,000 feet per second! What is interesting about our Bofors cannons is that the receiver had a lot of data/specifications inscribed on the side, one of which was the date of manufacture. All of our Bofors had dates of 1944, 1943, etc., which is amazing for obvious reasons, not the least of which proves what a great design the Bofors was.

7.160m range in real life 4km range in game

When you had one job to kill a plane and you accidently killed the entire hanger of a carrier. #OnlyBoforThings

Imagine a Yamato with this gun for replacement of all its AA

The Bofors identifies itself as a ship.

my great grand father operated one of these on the fletcher class destroyer USS Boyd (DD-544)

Those things were a large part of why the US Navy was able to splash 1/3 of everything that flew within range during WWII. Nasty guns to be on the receiving end of, especially in an aircraft with little to no armor.

Ah good old Bofors, deleting aircraft squadrons since 1933.

Fun fact: The famous, swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel ( the man who created the dynamite) was the owner of Bofors, 1894-1896

The Bofors 40 is still live and kicking today! It's modern version is one of the options for the Main Gun on the Swedish CV90 APCs, though most export-version CV90 use the 30mm Gun from the Bradley to make munition-logistics NATO-friendly. Modern smart-munitions for the 40MM Bofors makes it into a completely different gun than in WW2.

My uncle owned a Bofors 40 mm AAA. He kept it his barn on his farm. He bought a few dozen shells from an arms salesman from Chile. Thirty years ago he decided to test fire it on a giant hot air ballon. The 40 mm shells when right through the ballon and went 3 km away into used car park! Many vehicles caught fire from only three or four shells. My uncle was an idiot.

look at 8:23 and pause it, 👍👍red hot barrel, Dam the barrel Glowing red hot, still shooting with zero jaming , or stops, misfires, till the enemy planes are downed don't stop shooting. US navy knew they have one hell of an AA batteries it must of been one intense Anti-Aircraft battle

I believe Bofors were used on the U.S. Army twin-40 "dusters" tracked armoured vehicle. I saw one in action sweeping a Vietnam ridgeline in 1968.

It’s pronounced “Prinz Oygen” (Eugen) not Ugen.

6 barrel mounts are for when you want to kill everything in the air. Friendly and enemy.

Navel Legends: *expected to be another ship* What it really is: *A FREAKING LEGENDARY AA GUN*

Man I am learning so much from this!!! I only knew AA job was, but didn't know the details. Great choice pick for discussion Wargaming, please make more navel legends gun videos please!

One of the amazing things about this beautifully designed gun is its longevity. In gunships, the ones we used had dates stamped on the receiver, eg. 1944, as well as the brass, which we saved and was reloaded at the armory. Also, the variety of rounds, APT (armor piercing tracer), HE (high explosive), HEI (high explosive incendiary) and HEI SP (high explosive incendiary special), made the weapon extremely versatile. Before I left active duty, I took part in a test using sabot rounds, which had an incredible muzzle velocity of 5,000 fps! They caused too much damage to the skin of the aircraft and even the #2 engine nacelle from the shock wave of the muzzle blast.

The first customer for the Bofors 40mm was the Dutch Navy which installed 5 twin mounts on the cruiser HNLMS de Ruyter (1935). These could be directed to fire all at a single target. The Tromp-class cruisers (1936) were designed with four twin mounts each. In fact all new surface ships of the Dutch Navy built after 1935 (that were big enough) featured one or more twin mounts of the Bofors gun. They used an advanced stabilising system over three axes, which was copied by the British.

what a great name, Wilf Pickles.

11:25: "The probability of an aircraft breaking through to it's target was very very small" except in WoWS where the probability of striking your target through defensive AA is still near 100%

They are the SHIPS that deserve to be called naval legends -- "Bofors" ...excuse me?

5:07 oh, my country, Finland, also used this weapon.

These are so well done. Honestly its like something that was on the History channel before it went all aliens on us.

Bofors is a swedish Gun so thank the swedes

Somehow Azur Lane taught me more about AA gun types from different nations

...They're the ships that deserve to be called naval legend *anchor drops*, *dusts and sands cleared*, *FLIPPIN BOFORS*

My Dad was a Royal Navy gunner he used this gun in anger in WWII, and I miss him.

I self-identify as a Bofors model 60.

My dad was a 40L70 gunner in the army at the late 1950s, they were still great. And they were still great when they ran out of spares for them in the 1990s and they were retired.

Next: Oerlikon 20 mm guns

The thing is no system is better than one that provides a reliable steady stream of death and destruction on your opponent! You got to love it!!

Swedish steel

My Dad was on a twin 40mm L60 mount on the USS Santa Fe during WWII. Fought his way accross the entire Pacific on her.

One problem, by the time Japanese torpedo bomber had come into effective range of the 40mm guns they had already drop their torpedo's. Only the 5 inch batteries were effective at stopping these attacks. The 40mm guns were only killing torpedo planes that had already dropped their ordinance.

All the swedish CV90 have the L70 bofors gun in service to day

If I was captain of a destroyer, I would prohibited to remove the L70. Put twenty of it on your ship, it becomes a hedgehog. Well used of course.

There are 3 twin 40’s on the USS Slater (DE 766) berthed on the Hudson in Albany NY. They did an absolutely amazing job restoring them. They operate as smooth as a Swiss (Swedish?) watch. My 9 year old daughter and 13 year old son could easily track a moving target (an innocent speedboat heading north on the river). If you are near Albany, see the Slater, it’s one of the best museum ships afloat. However I am a bit biased. My father served on the Slater at the end of WW II. He was present when she was decommissioned in Jacksonville in 1946

Still used on the ac130

My dad served on the USS Wisconsin in Korea. His battle station job was at the end of the ammunition chain for one of the quad sets. He would hand the clip to the loader who would then jam the set of four rounds into the gun. If the loader went down he was to take that position.

Bofors.... Like the Viking force... Tactical crush with superior weapons. Small force, large impact!

In 1974 troop greek 's navy troop transport " Leros "was just living Cyprus with Greek troops that just ended their tour on the island Just when the " Attila " operation starts ( the Turkish invasion) the " Leros " was took orders to sail for Crete... but the ship's captain hearing on radio how desperate the situation was , decided to sail back to Cyprus to give the experienced troops under Cypriot command ( most of the Greek soldiers on the island was Rockies) The leros headed for Pafos were Greek Cypriot forces was pushed gradually to sea .. Leros was a ww2 us made troops transport/ landing craft with only armament her bofos a.a. guns Ones in the port leros delivered a devastating barrage to support the Greek Cypriot forces on the ground and cover the boats landing in the port eventually helping the Greek forces re taking the town The Turkish forces never believed that the aa guns of a troops transport can deliver sush firepower and the tried to find the " Greek cruiser " ending up sinking on of their own, mistaking for the Greek ship was hunting for..

The ultimate evolution of the Boforos Gun is the Dardo system . A CIWS system using 2 bofors L70 (modified).

Friend was in Bofors crew aboard the Intrepid during Leyte.

Boforts:" Exists" Japanese pilots: HELP ME I'M DYING

"The Machine Gun" - by Gen. George Chinn, Vol I & II, a lesser known great reference work.

Can you do the Chicago Piano Anti Air Gun on the next episode.

Achtacht *turns around slowly, and gives the Bofors a tired look*

7:16 most beautiful sound known to man

World of warships channel : exists* History channel : am I joke to you?!

We might be a small country but our influences are found around the globe to this day

Bofors is really impressive! The history even more amazing! Citation "Located in Karlskoga, Sweden, the company originates from the hammering trip hammer mill "Boofors", which was founded as a royal state-owned company in 1646. The modern corporate structure was created in 1873 with the foundation of Aktiebolaget (AB) Bofors-Gullspång." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors Holy f-word, history from 1646!! USA wasn't even back then a little sperm. Now USA has developed to an aggressive germ! :)

my fav AA gun

Bofors is one of the best Artillery maker in sweden. The L60 was best. But, it was replaced by other variants like L70, which is still in use.

Few weapons are used on both sides,with such equal quality!

How much was the success of any AA piece, was it the gun or the proximity fuze?

Wilf Pickles is a fantastic name

Make a video on the IJN Shigure or the IJN Yukikaze, two very lucky ships Would love to see that happen~

And still serving on AC-130 Spectre !

Pity they didn't cover the STAAG mounting. Director, radar, and reflector sights all on the mounting. I think some even had an on mount generator.

My father operated Bofors guns on British defensively equipped merchant ships as a Royal Navy Gunner. He did the Battle Of 3:08 the Atlantic, Pacific, Med,

My neighbor when I was a kid growing up in Winnipeg shot down a Ju-88 in Holland while in the Canadian Army near the end of WW2- he was a Bofors gunner...

Spent my military service in Sweden on one of these :)

In wwII my dad was a gunners mate in the USN, he shot down a couple JU 88s with these.

Thanks to bofors my country downed a lot of german planes in the first days of ww2

The comment in the end, that german minesweaper uses the Bofors is fals. Today they are using the MLG-27. It is a 27mm Revolvergun

I like how Sweden, the neutral country, created one of the best weapons

Wonderful. More videos like this would be excellent. I like the experts at the Explosion museum a lot. Keep it up!

0:46 to 1:05 name music

should totally do one of these on the 5in 38 secondary/aa/destroyer guns

"Wilf Pickles, Explosion Volunteer" What a great name/title combo

There's a guy named Wilf Pickles who is an "explosion volunteer". Wow, life is hilarious!

This is what's missing from King's Landing.

Bofors will never be replaced by anything. The tracers look too cool...

The Johnston has to have an episode either already or coming down the line soon. I’ll be going through the archive later. Amazingly good mini documentaries you guys produce.

Those special systems that aim the gun are called Gun Fire Control Systems. As a former Fire Control Tech in the US Navy, I just wanted to point that out.

Congratulations from a chilean sailor,40mm double...great weapons.

Many navy equip their ship with this but it was Us navy and the Pacific naval battle that makes the gun a legend. Every aircraft in the sky is either get shot down or being fire upon by this gun. It was the naval gun that shot down more aircraft than any other AA gun combine.

I use to play on one of these things in my home town of San Pedro Ca. It was put out front of a Maritime Musem. It was complete and was able to move. I remeber looking through the sites pretending to shot the guns.

Very informative, but the music is a bit much.

The Bofors formula is very simple. Fast firing enough to directly hit high performance aircraft, yet big enough shells to have a timed or proximity fuse. Anything smaller is generally a contact weapon. Anything larger is basically an area effect flak. When planes flew at WWII speeds that is the magic combination for an AA gun. -- At the tail end of WWII, the trend was actually towards fast firing bigger caliber weapons like the auto-loading big calibers like the 100mm/65 and the 3"/50 Mk.22, But, while these were arguably more effective, they never saw significant action in WWII and were very quickly superseded by anti-aircraft guided missiles in the Cold War.

Well the 20 mm oerliken is next

who made the quad-horizontal mount 1.1" weapon used in early war period before mostly replaced by 40mm Bofors weapon? There were effectiveness issues with both it and the 25mm gun on IJN ships..

During the Battle of Samar, with the stand of Task Force Taffy-3 against the might of the Japanese Navy, it’s believed that when the larger Japanese force was retreating, one of the gun crews on an escort carrier was reported to have yelled out: “They’re getting away! We almost have them in range for the 40mm!” This was a bit of dry wit from the crew, and also showed just how dire the situation had been.

They don't have the Missouri Ship here in the Naval Legends series yet right? Damn I love to learn more about the battleships

In essence the 40mm/ L 70 still in use to day coupled to the Fly catcher AA radar system still is a real life threat when you’r in a aircraft!

the videos on proximity fuse development during WW2 are interesting.

Mr. Pickles is probably a tough dude, don't let the mild mannered accent fool ya!

They are still using 40mm today. First design in like 1935 if I am recalling it again

Imagine getting hit by one of these 40MM anti weapons

Imagine a multi barrel Gatling CWIS weapon that shoots the 40mm rounds like the Bofor