1960s BOFORS 10.5 CM FIELD HOWITZER PROMO FILM ARTILLERY WEAPON SYSTEM 45884

This color educational/promotional film is about the Bofors 10.5 cm Field Howitzer L/28. The Internet has scant information on the L/28, but it was apparently designed for rapid movement and positioning, and the narrator notes that it was intended to be positioned quickly so as to hold off a paratroop or partisan type attack. Whereas prior to WWII Bofors had developed a 10.5 cm howitzer (also known as the Model 1924), this model appears to be different and may have never gone into volume production. Like the M1924, this howitzer was designed for motor traction with rubber-rimmed steel wheels. It had a firing platform that gave it 360° traverse. This gun appears to be a light version of the 10.5 cm kanon m/34, a heavy field gun produced in Sweden and also designed for motor towing. The m/34 was a development of the earlier 10.5 cm Cannon Model 1927, with the carriage being used by various Bofors 15 cm howitzers of the 1930s. No copyright but this is circa the 1950s/1960s.
Opening titles: The Bofors 10.5 - CM Field Howitzer (:07-:15). Truck goes over a bridge. The Bofors 10.5 - CM Field Howitzer is fired. It is then shown broken down into pieces. The legs are first and slowly the entire CM Field Howitzer is pieced together by Bofors technicians. Parts of the gun and its features are explained. CM Field Howitzer spins (:16-2:59). The CM Field Howitzer is shown almost complete, the barrel is then added. A hand pulls down to demonstrate firing. Loading tray. A man pushes down on it. The main body of the CM Field Howitzer is shown. The front of the CM Field Howitzer is shown and parts and pieces are explained. Total weight of the gun is 2.6 tons (3:00-5:56). Animated diagram shows supporting plate and the CM Field Howitzer spinning 360 degrees upon it. How to prevent it tipping over is explained. Gun is moved by a military tractor. Swedish or Swiss soldier walks through mud, waves the tractor over. Gun is towed through dirt and mud (5:57-7:46). Tractor gets stuck in the mud. Artillerymen head towards the CM Field Howitzer and start to unhook it from the back of the tractor. The soldiers push it through the mud and muddy water. Tractor is now on dry land and it pulls the CM Field Howitzer through brush (7:47-9:49). Soldiers move into position and unhook the CM Field Howitzer from the tractor. The CM Field Howitzer is ready to be used as the final preparations are made. CM Field Howitzer spins and faces the direction the men want (9:50-11:36). The men move the CM Field Howitzer back around again. Ammunition is prepared for the weapon. Soldiers move the barrels and then fire the weapon (11:37-13:01). Diagram shows how the CM Field Howitzer can fire in certain directions. A radius of gunfire is also provided. The CM Field Howitzer is fired by the soldiers. Ammunition is grabbed by the men. The different types of shells that are placed in the CM Field Howitzer are explained via an animated sequence. The sequence also details the specific use of each type of shell and the trajectories utilized in attack (13:02-15:33). CM Field Howitzer is ready to be fired. One artilleryman pivots the weapon and then fires. He reloads it. Animation shows the weapon fired. Soldiers fire the CM Field Howitzer. Multiple explosions on the ground from direct hits (15:34-17:35). Tractor pulls the CM Field Howitzer. Soldiers get the weapon unhooked and prepared. The gun is fired multiple times (17:36-19:02). End logo (19:03-19:07).
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[@rockets4kids]

I love the way this has the same music used for promoting mid-century kitchen appliances.

[@brentandvuk]

Really

[@joevicmeneses8918]

The only appliance that fires a artillery shell.

[@accousticdecay]

I remember this same sort of music in films we saw in elementary school, covering subjects such as hygiene, fallout shelters, deportment, etc.

[@falukropp2000]

I did service on one of those during my mandatory service in 89/90, it made use as part of infantry and armored battalions. We followed the advance of the tank battalion (Centurions) a couple of kilometers behind and if they called for support, we were to halt and send some grenades to clear off any obstacles so they could proceed. We could also use it as a flak gun which explains the use of the 360 ability. We also did shoot flare grenades to lit up the battlefield for the armored troops. The tactics were the same as with the new Archer system, we're coming rolling down the road, hit the brakes, shoot away a couple, and on the road again asap. It only takes a couple of minutes.

[@johnhodges8264]

Love the cheery music that usually acompanies holiday films not things designed to deal out death and distuction.!

[@loneranger5349]

Love the music that old generation couldn't produce anything without happy music

[@Uncle_Neil]

Wow, the music makes me want to buy a new washer/dryer!

[@newyorkstrip]

Best comment I've seen in a while!

[@hisdivineshadow8263]

thats intentional...the company that owns Bofors currently is ahuge producer of home appliances

[@TheKertog]

Lol, I was thinking the same thing.

[@SgfGustafsson]

Definitely filmed in Sweden. Swedish soldiers, Swedish Bolinder-Munktell tractor, and Swedish artillery.

[@Helltanz98]

I wondered if that wasn't the case, given their equipment.

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Comes with its own orchestra.

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

I Love the 1960s Department Store music 😄 Just right for shopping ! Lol 🛒 Semper Fi

[@MountainRaven1960]

When war had manners! Each gun came with a Conductor and Orchestra.

[@fuffoon]

A great center piece for a garden.

[@Wen6543]

Indeed.

[@kittehgo]

Let's see if the neighbour let's his dog poop on your lawn again.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Impressive bit of kit.

[@indigohammer5732]

I love the breezy music.

[@lionvillelion]

The howitzer can be found for sale at the snack bar in the lobby.

[@fuffoon]

The first half sounded like a program introducing the housewife to 'tomorrow's kitchen today'.

[@indigohammer5732]

@@fuffoon " and garnish with supersonic, jagged, white-hot shards of iron, or persistent Nerve Agent, according to taste"

[@chocksaway100]

Great piece of kit compact powerful and portable

[@scratchdog2216]

lol One could sell household appliances with the music. Fun post.

[@Cancun771]

Douglas Adams would have loved the operetta music underscoring this ad for an advanced killing and maiming machine.

[@Barnekkid]

i love their choice of happy homemaker music to accompany the description of this engine of destruction.

[@johnbender5356]

I keep expecting Doris Day and Rock Hudson to start dancing

[@angelseliteautodetailing]

Till death do us part

[@josephhuether1184]

The perfect addition to any modern backyard barbecue and if you buy now we’ll throw in a full caisson of shells absolutely free!

[@relluplewis7112]

Wasn't this gun to be used in their (Doris's/Rock's) movie 'Pillow Talk' but ended up on the editing rm. floor?

[@loneranger5349]

My comment was about the music and i noticed every comment was about the music 🎶 🤣

[@user-ph4dd3do3j]

It's like Disney .

[@tomandtinadixon]

I almost expected Billy Mays to pop up with 'but wait, there's more!' If this was intended as a promotional ad, it was very well done. I'll take two!

[@ljprep6250]

Or the Ron Popeil model Bofors, with 37 additional accessories.

[@user-ph4dd3do3j]

Genius way of getting it out of the mud .

[@mrsaizo0000]

Ah, finally a product from my country - Sweden! Sad that BOFORS is no more, I think they are a part of BAE Systems..

[@sapper1826]

105mm howitzers are still in artillery units assigned to motorized and light infantry brigades. Current version is the M119 in the US Army and known as the L118 in the UK.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

How do you know? You haven't the intellect to recall your own bloody name!

[@karlburris4587]

Sounds like great fun for all boys and girls sold from the front display window at the local Woolsworth Store… Love this music…

[@shamfilmpresents6309]

Fantastic..

[@AdamAdamHDL]

Even though the orchestra tried their hardest that gun stayed in the muddy ditch.

[@brianzawodniak1075]

Sweds still using bolt action rifles in this film!

[@MrDastardly]

Went to buy a refrigerator last week. Same music in the department store. The department store did not sell Bofors howitzers. 😭😭😭

[@agurjaunak]

Sorry man, it's out of stock.. I still don't know when it will be resupplied again.. 😊

[@bulukacarlos4751]

I did not know this howitzer thank you very much. It strikes me that the soldiers use bolt-action rifles and I can't identify the helmets. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina

[@shaunmatthews3791]

it is a swedish weapon & crew

[@nudgeunit]

Love the music, lol

[@briansorensen1104]

13:38 “Four rounds can be fired in seven seconds”. You’d have to be perfect, even with semi-fixed ammunition. It takes one second for the recuperator just to get the tube back into battery. That leaves just one second to load the next round and fire. No bubble checks or verifying correct charge.

[@falukropp2000]

Not a problem. You can put the next grenade on the loading tray while recuperation is taking place. Before even firing the first, the second is already in the tray. Two guys standing next to the gun with no 3 and 4 ready to put them on the tray. That's not how they do it in the filmclip but that's how it's done. Charges were put together by numbered charge packs, all cartridges were delivered with 5 charge bags marked 1 to 5. Gun chief told us what charge and what fuse he wanted, we did the assembly and counted the charge packs out loud: Charge 3, 1-2-3 as we put them back into the previously emptied cartridge. Never any mistakes and it was a kind of double-check that every cartridge got the correct charge, if someone stuttered or were silent it was something wrong and we helped eachother out to make sure. No delays at the gun, if the grenade came as far as to the gun, it was away. We never stacked any pre-prepared cartridges, that way all kinds of mistakes can happen.

[@kristiangoransson6104]

Don’t forget that the Swedish armed forces used the tractors for pulling 120mm mortars until the early 1990:s. There’s content here on KZbin from conscript exercises in 1991 rocking tractors

[@chonqmonk]

That music is hilarious!

[@rickfrancis4182]

Ya got to luv the "Going to the Cafe" Music score LaaDaaaDeeDaaa.......

[@julianpalmer4886]

The narrator must have sold fridges before the war

[@berteisenbraun7415]

You want me to get the tractor stuck and then man handel the gun! F that!

[@Black_Hole_HQ]

The rate of fire was rather good for being a manual loader...

[@patriotenfield3276]

wait a Minute. Did the Soviets were inspired from this to make the 122mm D-30 Howitzer?

[@vanguard9067]

I wouldn’t want to be needing to shoot 360° during one emplacement

[@flexabu]

That’s part of the anti-partisan option package

[@vanguard9067]

@@flexabu yep, I mean once you get the big boy emplaced, neither side is that motivated to pack it up. Like emptying the dishwasher.

[@dave.of.the.forrest]

Love the shopping mall music.

[@stephenbritton9297]

Carl owes everyone a beer after the FTX… who’s Carl? He’s the nitwit ground guide who thought the tractor wouldn’t get stuck in that swamp!

[@joeanon5788]

"No Soldiers were harmed in the making of this film" Just pissed off a bit.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

I am pissed by infantile anonymous bloody cowards like you.

[@peolindstrom8570]

Bofors 🇸🇪

[@loneranger5349]

They couldn't afford a halftrack to pull with after paying for the music 😊

[@paulbarthol8372]

How fast could they scoot out of there after a fire mission?

[@SonsOfLorgar]

1-2minutes to pack up and gtfo 500m away.

[@maxkronader5225]

I notice that in the manhandling demonstration the gun crew looked as though they were wishing for a few more men, or perhaps a mule or two, to haul their piece through that mud.

[@Wen6543]

That was the idea of the demonstration and training, that the gun can be moved through complicated terrain by few soldiers, in real war scenarios they many times they didn´t have enough men or mules, horses, tractors, etc. at hand.

[@maxkronader5225]

@@Wen6543 The point I was making is that the gun crew could barely move the piece through the muddy test course. It was clearly strenuous work to barely move it twenty yards. Such work would rapidly make the crew physically exhausted and combat ineffective.

[@Wen6543]

@@maxkronader5225 I get your point but still i stand with my first answer, The demonstration was to show that the gun was still mobile with few soldiers in bad terrain.

[@Nighthawke70]

Rare popgun, indeed! I think at this time the 155mm was coming into vogue and the smaller field pieces like this one was being phased out. Despite being made by a great company, really didn't make it.

[@maxkronader5225]

The 105s were still commonly used for another couple decades, there being a real need for a lighter piece than the 155. It's really been the 120mm rifled mortars that have largely taken over the role of the 105 howitzer.

[@nathansmith3608]

Wow, this weapon system is almost 100 years old, but it still looks impressive! Isn't the new thing to use artillery more or less like this, plus an additional guidance package so it can follow a laser from a drone & land w/in a specific 1 meter target, e.g. a Russian tank or fuel truck?

[@tis7963]

Looks like the troops are still carrying the M38 rifle.

[@the51project]

Very uplifting music as you are sending a wall of shrapnel into a group of terrified civilians.

[@timnavarrette3274]

These are Swedish troops.

[@Primarch359]

Did this get any export sales?

[@bogthing1]

Great big-game piece, ammo be difficult to come by tho...

[@flyingled3176]

Get an empty shell and reload yourself, cast the head and make your own powder, blackpowder primers and your set. Have fun, I would

[@Doodlesthegreat]

Were this an American weapon, this film would have bombastic marching band music, or possibly some middling orchestra piece with lots of horns and drums (or in modern times, really shitty "RAWK & ROLL!!!" tracks just different enough from the original source as to keep from getting copyright strikes), but because this is British it has a soundtrack not unlike the music one would hear if it was a short on the manufacturing of cat litter or breakfast cereal. This goes double for the narrator, who sounds like he's trying to sell us on a Ford Cortina instead of artillery.

[@maxkronader5225]

It's a Swedish weapon, not British; although clearly a British narrator.

[@donlove3741]

@@maxkronader5225 he's a troll.

[@lantrick]

imagination is free. The real world is boring.

[@peteraningaaqsgaard4845]

@@maxkronader5225 He has some words that gives him away as a non native English speaker...

[@thats_my_comment]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 good grief some rough country there did they have to make those poor troops get it stuck in a mud hole just to show that it's movable without a tractor that looks so miserable

[@markdudley3831]

Please correct me if I'm wrong but the vid headline reads 1960s bofors field howitzer ? Surely this must be wrong ... It should read 1860s bofors etc etc .!

[@1David89]

Naturally'

[@johnbattista9519]

Music sounds like your selling refrigerators.

[@10HERBERT]

This is just a reworked German gun from 1943 (10.5 cm FH 49 Skoda model )

[@Gerle71]

What do you base that on?

[@jeremy28135]

I feel like this British gun would actually lob a preliminary projectile to the enemy that bursts into leaflets saying: 'Sorry! Sorry ol Boy! We do apologize for the inconvenience, chaps, but we're afraid we'll be expending some ordinance in your vicinity. We hope it's not too inconvenient, and if so we're dreadfully sorry. Sorry SORRY!'

[@Will_CH1]

A tortuously long set up

[@SonsOfLorgar]

80 years ago...

[@gregtaylor6146]

Will it hit a dinghy full of africans from 500m???

[@ronalddavis]

not at night

[@danielmalone4446]

@@ronalddavis ha!

[@pauletxfish4976]

anyone else think the background music is absolutely annoying ??

[@Nick-ye5kk]

But is it more annoying than the overly laid back delivery?

[@JonBoltinghouse]

D*** what's up with the ice skating music

[@thereisnospoon277]

I think the music is to help keep you attentive. Without it you're liable to fall asleep.

[@Kitiwake]

Bofors also make gas trains.

[@thekekronomicon590]

Why not just mount the gun to the truck and attach stabilizer arms to it like a tractor ? Am I making too much sense ok imma head out

[@darylcheshire1618]

I think it is more versatile as a free moving artillery piece. I have seen it on navy patrol boats up the front.

[@user-qh1xn3kc9s]

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