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Historical ships in the game World of Warships 👉 wo.ws/3MrVWY7 What do you think about today's episode? 📝 Leave us a comment right after subscribing to the channel 🔔 wo.ws/KZbin-subscription Instead of a ship, this time we are discussing a truly global weapon. The Swedish Bofors L60 has served as the antiaircraft gun of choice for countless nations. Naval Legends is a series about the construction, service, and daring deeds of legendary 20th-century ships. Recommended playlists: 👁‍🗨 Naval Legends - wo.ws/2Kharxt Naval Legends is a series about the construction, service, and daring deeds of legendary 20th-century ships. Very few vessels survived World War I and II -- most were decommissioned and scrapped. The Naval Legends production crew travels all across the globe to visit almost every active museum ship and chronicle her story. 👁‍🗨 Dry Dock - wo.ws/34bpBh1 World of Warships is the largest virtual shipyard in the world. The quality of the work performed by our artists improves each year, and the requirements for the accuracy of the models they create intensify respectively. 👁‍🗨 Naval Fortress - wo.ws/3wbRm8u Naval Fortress is a video series dedicated to the famous strategic forts and coastal defence fortresses. 👁‍🗨 In The Ports of World of Warships - wo.ws/3q8uy5w In this series, we'll be talking about the intricate details and exclusive features of our in-game Ports. 👁‍🗨 Armada - wo.ws/3vjlf3b Deep guides for in-game Warships: history, gameplay tips, unique features, advantages and disadvantages and many-many more! 👁‍🗨 Head Over Keels Is Back - wo.ws/3Jlgk92 👁‍🗨 Warships Size Comparison - wo.ws/35Wrsef This is a playlist where we compare ships by class, nation, tier, firepower, etc. 👁‍🗨 Armchair Admirals - wo.ws/3i9sgPp 👁‍🗨 Naval Traditions - wo.ws/36Cllbz 👁‍🗨 1:42 Scale Ships - wo.ws/3teWqqx 1:42 Scale is a video series about the history of ship building in the Russian Empire, which is based on the masterpieces of the ship scale modeling. 👁‍🗨 World of Warships Movies and Trailers - wo.ws/3ewuN4y ⚓⚓⚓ Keep an eye out on the official World of Warships website: wo.ws/website Quick start in WoWs for our subscribers: wo.ws/yt-gift If you're a console player, check out WoWs: Legends wo.ws/WoWSLegends Twitter: wo.ws/twitter Facebook: wo.ws/fb Instagram: wo.ws/inst #worldofwarships #warships #wows

[@tomryner5830]

Just pretty proud of Swedish engineering really

[@tomryner5830]

Although…. The rangefinder was a Swedish invention for this weapon.

[@5.56mm]

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

[@noahj008]

Good eye lol

[@The-Ink-Dragon97]

*MOAR DAKA!!!*

[@Matbb123]

@@The-Ink-Dragon97 WWWAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

[@dullen2810]

the primary use of this anti-aircraft gun is to violate the geneva convention

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@santiagofaiella1255 You're right! It's like crumbs. If you have a crumb on the table and it falls off and splits in half you don't have two half a crumbs. You got two crumbs! (George Carlin)

[@dominicgorriceta6487]

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

[@Gdayhomie]

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*

[@harmlessratz7151]

there can never be enough dakka

[@samuelwan4346]

@@harmlessratz7151 dakka dakkka dakka dakkkkka daka daka dakka dakka....

[@awesomeaiden5218]

Phh HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHA XD

[@hmsrenown7801]

Ting go skraa

[@_R-R]

Triple A alright. (Anti-Aircraft Artillery)

[@USBearForce]

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

[@gabrieltheodore621]

USBearForce I only thought that there's only a max of quadruple mounts of this gun But damn I love to see one of those six-mounts

[@FlamingZombie626]

Yeah the Brits were wild, they stuck 6 on the same mount.

[@FlamingZombie626]

They used that to replace a bank of 8 of their own 40mm guns that weren't as good on the Edinburgh iirc

[@revivrevalchn3503]

here some picture of a glory brit 6 barrel, it strange design i think. i.imgur.com/VoXAjwp.jpg

[@rocket_sensha4337]

men, you just made made day. ;)

[@corchaEkotte]

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

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

Wargaming makes something like $300 million a year.

[@corchaEkotte]

Yes, but still probally less than the History Channel, and their documentaries are still better than HCs.

[@MyVanir]

HC used to be really good, but then it shifted to all that shitty reality crap.

[@corchaEkotte]

MyVanir Yep, I have found that some Sunday mornings they run the older documentaries.

[@corchaEkotte]

Joiyuan Chen Yeah, and Patton 360, Shootout, and there was some air battle/dogfight show around that time too....RIP

[@justsomeguywithasurprisede4059]

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

[@awesomeaiden5218]

Just some guy with a surprised expression BRUH MOMENT

[@PSPaaskynen]

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.

[@StevenCovey-ct3sx]

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.

[@SHOTIMELV]

that's the price of fun

[@mikep3180]

7.160m range in real life 4km range in game

[@CrazyTankersVN]

Oh, you know how the game's balance worked, so far.

[@mikep3180]

Well...... Nice photo btw

[@hbme2103]

can you imagine NC with 100 AA rating + 7km range.

[@SKFthree]

USN rounds had self-destruct mechanisms that exploded at about 4000m to prevent friendly fire, so it's not that silly (www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_4cm-56_mk12.php).

[@AnAverageJho]

Its true that gun ranges are "balanced out" in-game, but please note that the 7km range is the straight line distance to target. It doesn't mean that bofors could hit a plane that was 7km away from a top-down persepective (altitude and that dreaded pythagorean theorem mean that the higher the plane is, the closer it can get to the ship before being in gun range).

[@quintiax]

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

[@rickhigson3881]

Thanks!

[@georgewashington9161]

That the problem is the 6 gun mount

[@Scientist118]

The Bofors identifies itself as a ship.

[@hypeacers]

it earns more xp for me in battle than my actual main armament

[@LemSat87]

@@hypeacers Amen to that!

[@lordredlead2336]

@Owen Yin yeah every time you get ahead don't even get ribbons that says hit or penetration

[@braith117]

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.

[@johnmcshane4463]

and no self-sealing fuel tanks, causing most ijn planes to burst into flames after one hit.

[@sirmoke9646]

Any plane hit by a 4 cm shrapnel shell is going to go down in flames and tiny parts regardless of the design.

[@Lemon-yz4mw]

Sir Moke there has been a case where a p-47 was hit by an 88mm flak round in the prop and survived :)

[@lancejacobs5596]

That 8mm shell was a dud, though, and failed to explode. So that is not at all a valid point. Germany suffered significant quality control problems with ammunition during the later stages of the war. Slave labor was being used in many of the Nazi ammo factories.

[@crplsteve]

Mid-war models of A6M's did indeed have self sealing fuel tanks. They still had no armour though so there's that.

[@reggierico]

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.

[@starfieldryker5299]

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

[@nafisfuadayon6832]

Yes. IJN AA were useless.

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

Still would have been sunk.

[@ZaHandle]

Would’ve still sunk it stood no chance against hundreds of planes

[@benyaminyasserchin8858]

@@ZaHandle true, but the kill count of planes would definitely increase.

[@ZaHandle]

@@benyaminyasserchin8858 definitely

[@dwayne7201]

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

[@andreassjoberg3145]

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.

[@patrickpak2537]

Don't forget it's on the AC-130

[@Paladin327]

it's also the gun used in the italian DARDO CIWS on their ships

[@fuzzwork]

Royal Canadian Navy has single barrel mounts on some of their coastal defence vessels

[@drianmortiz9375]

The Philippine Navy are still using the old Bofors, 40mm, mod. L60. Both in a single and a double barrel mounts.

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

@@drianmortiz9375 Are modern parts still fit or the Philippines have to cannibalized old guns for parts now?

[@173muppet]

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%

[@ringojsp.sanchex6953]

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

[@darrellcook8253]

I froze it and can see the projectile about 2 feet out. That's hot!

[@stephenpowstinger733]

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.

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

Modified version of it yes

[@TheWoodworker4u]

@@Zretgul_timerunner My father in the late 60's and early 70's and then myself served on the M42 Duster. 120 rounds per barrel. HEIT High Explosive Incederiary Tracer Rounds. Great weapon system.

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

@@TheWoodworker4u yes it was, sad it wasent expanded upon.

[@nahuelleandroarroyo]

Why would it? For AA it's lacks speed, for ground support it lacks punch

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

@@nahuelleandroarroyo it lacks speed? Well its almost like its from like the early 50ies and wasent really improved at all. The 40mm is a very viable platform for anti helicopter/low flight interception. Programable munitions exist for these today which during the 50ies and 60ies did not. This thing is a very reliable secondary armament to say a stinger equipped spaag unit.

[@dukeoftoast2420]

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

[@SeanP7195]

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

[@sean1939]

He was also the fella they came up with the patent for dynamite.

[@EwokPilot]

The guilt that he felt over his activities (like the invention of dynamite) were the very things that prompted him to come up with the prize IIRC.

[@bingoberra18]

Well to be fair you need weapons to sustain peace.

[@Daboi.]

War is peace

[@bingoberra18]

@@Daboi. By definition, no :P

[@elliotttheneko]

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

[@JustConfused3520]

I'm surprised that the Bofors in AL is the most effective AA Defense

[@AlifSgBuloh92]

Flak 88🤣🤣

[@sinhangso5107]

We have nothing but Bofors. Bring on the destruction!

[@josephlongbone4255]

IJN: "oh no!"

[@soarinskies1105]

Ah good old Bofors, deleting aircraft squadrons since 1933.

[@coderbert3996]

Well the gun itself alone is just a reliable medium size AA gun. American VT shells is what made it ridiculously effective.

[@bp_cherryblossomtree723]

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

[@nickames3808]

And its Great

[@WadcaWymiaru]

Bofors was REALLY pain in the kamikaze asses...

[@Gdayhomie]

They were considered one of the best small caliber guns ever built.

[@JeezUriah]

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

[@alexvdm1799]

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!!

[@troynov1965]

My uncle was a Bofor gunner in WW2 on the USS Miami (CL-89). I even have a 40mm ashtray he made while he was on board her.

[@jonathantodd6953]

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!

[@justanotherasian4395]

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

[@tutel19]

Gods included

[@alexanderwingeskog758]

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

[@lucasbarry6271]

7:16 most beautiful sound known to man

[@WorldofWarshipsOfficialChannel]

Wait for it to start shooting

[@turninwrenches8127]

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.

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

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

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

The biggest selling AA cannon with the longest production known to mankind. Parts from modern Bofors still fit WW2 units aren't they?

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 the design remains largely the same yes and a big chunk of the Gun is built still using the same ole tested parts. Uncertain if BAE systems still builds these but i assume as much

[@swamppappy7745]

what a great name, Wilf Pickles.

[@reggierico]

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.

[@urdnotwrex6969]

I am War Thunder player but man, how I love these vids. No matter what game, if it contains historical documentary of a gun and its truth, IT IS MUST SEE thing.

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

Still used on the ac130

[@hattrick8684]

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.

[@stuartgarfatth1448]

As a 17 year old, from 1967-69, I was a layer on a Bofors here in Australia. My crew shot down two airborne targets, windsocks basically, towed on a 1000 yard length of wire by a P-51 Mustang. The sights I used were what were called back then, 'peanut graticule' sights. Basically, an electrically illuminated sight with the range circles 'pinched' in the middle, top to bottom, hence the name. It was a trip. My mates used to ramble on about their cars and shit, and I'd kinda say, 'I was on a shoot last week with my Bofors 40MM, blazing away at airborne targets towed by a WW11 P-51D......

[@dabiga2315]

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

[@josephrosenbaum3343]

they should make this a TV show on the history channel

[@sirmoke9646]

A show that contains actual information and doesn't rely 100% on over dramatization and propaganda? On the History Channel? What planet are you from?

[@jeremyheintz1479]

Was it designed by ancient aliens or Hitler in South America?

[@iMakoism]

Was it suppose to be aliens,treasures and *moNey*

[@jwenting]

And where can they blame it for Global Warming?

[@mikew4171]

Ahhhhh, here we hear from "juicy smell-it" AGAIN, been gettin beat up lately "juicy" ?

[@sparviero142]

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

[@Gdayhomie]

I love the way the double and quadruple bofors fire

[@avalynpoe4441]

I live in Wilmington, where the old USS North Carolina (same battleship in WoWS) is anchored, and you can actually operate the Bofors Guns, although obviously you can't fire them. You can feel the power those things have. These are truly worthy of the status of a Naval Legend.

[@eliaswannberg9145]

Bofors is a swedish Gun so thank the swedes

[@grandmagertrude6358]

tes its true thank u iam from sweden

[@CricketTheHivewing]

Bofors IKEA

[@carlosromerogrcia4378]

@Michael Srite white people from europe Is fucked by feminists with dildos and black people

[@KateLicker]

yes...And most of them are completely drugged to this catastrophe in their midst, or too scared to speak up.. 'humanitarian superpower".. what a disaster even that concept spells.. You cannot rescue Africa or the middle-east..all you can do is spread that contagion..

[@KateLicker]

Actually, I think it is in fact a town's name as well as a brand....most examples used by Commonwealth in Ww2 made in Canada, I think..

[@eduardodeandres3864]

Awesome, thanks for posting!!!

[@GreenChilliD]

The fact that the makers of my game are history buffs like me blows me away. This is very enjoyable. Education never stops.

[@christophercole5219]

The 40mm Bofors when installed on the AC-130A, AC-130E, AC-130H and AC-130U is one damn fine air-to-ground weapon as well.

[@svfilms2778]

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

[@101szniper]

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

[@marksolarz3756]

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

[@rickt1154]

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.

[@Shvrtya]

Thanks, didn't know that!

[@PeelosopherBananaCrates]

What years did you serve, what ship? If you don't mind me asking

[@rickt1154]

@@PeelosopherBananaCrates USS Barbey FF1088 79 - 85

[@PeelosopherBananaCrates]

@@rickt1154 did the fire control system still have multiple positions, like pointer, tracker and radar operator?

[@rickt1154]

@@PeelosopherBananaCrates yes, radar and computer operators. And a person in the gun director.

[@SangNguyen-xg2xq]

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

[@fuzztsimmers3415]

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

[@reimons14]

Absolutely unexpectedly good pieces to know more about the AA 10/10

[@Handles-Suck-YouTube]

From my town Karlskoga. Best thing about it? The sound of artillery at the firing range.

[@rajpawar6305]

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.

[@cardiv5zuikaku944]

my fav AA gun

[@verifeli]

That's why they shoot your planes like a turkey.

[@benharris211]

Love these mini documentaries.

[@jwenting]

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.

[@Penekamp11]

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

[@rickymcgowen6776]

Thank you! My brain shut down for a second when I heard that.

[@kbanghart]

When I first heard the real pronunciation I felt dumb.

[@Hopeless_and_Forlorn]

As in Oygene, Oyregon?

[@j2m3_raiden5]

@@Hopeless_and_Forlorn prinz eugen is pronounced prinz oygen. Oy-gen gen is prounounced kinda like the gon in hexagon

[@johnnydiamondsmusic1673]

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,

[@drianmortiz9375]

Indeed the Bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun is one of the most effective, anti aircraft artillery that has ever made. And thus until now some few Navies around the world, are still using this type of ammunition weapon today. Thank you for sharing this short documentary.

[@David123321]

Swedish steel

[@progx8679]

All USA Navy and Army Bofors were made by the Chrysler Corp. ..kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4fIfaaAqa6Xlck...enjoy !!.

[@AnonyMous-ql9nj]

@@progx8679 Its Swedish.

[@12345678981010]

@@progx8679 nop the eraly versions where bought from sweden.. only mid to late war chrysler made them.

[@airborne3668]

@@12345678981010 yes but design and the patent is Swedish

[@AnonyMous-ql9nj]

@@numbatkeller dont be salty bc ur shit hole of a country cant do anything right.

[@EnderSaga]

Next: Oerlikon 20 mm guns

[@D4rkn3ss2000]

CondomBag it was a underwhelming gun with poor characteristics. By the end of WWII almost all 20mm Oerlikon were replaced by 40mm Bofors mountings in USA ships

[@CleveAneki]

www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_2cm-70_mk234.php *Between December 1941 and September 1944, 32% of all Japanese aircraft downed by the USN were credited to this weapon, with the high point being 48.3% for the second half of 1942. In 1943 the revolutionary Mark 14 Gunsight was introduced which made these guns even more effective. This gunsight was developed by Dr. Charles Draper of MIT, who calculated that since the guns fired at relatively short ranges, a crude but simple and effective relative-bearing system could be used to control these weapons. The Mark 14 gunsight used two gyros to measure vertical and lateral rate of change and with these calculated the lead angle to the target aircraft and then projected an off-set aiming point for the gunner. Use of the Mark 14 did require that an electric power connection be provided to the formerly free-standing mountings. This gunsight was later adopted as part of the Mark 51 director which was used to control the 40 mm Bofors, greatly increasing their effectiveness. Postwar, the Mark 14 was replaced by the Mark 20 Gun Sight, which was a lighter, simpler design. The Mark 20 was ready to use in ten seconds after being switched on while the Mark 14 took three minutes.* *By late 1944, the USN had found that 20 mm shells were too light to kill-stop Japanese Kamikaze planes and the higher approach speeds of these planes made manually controlled guns obsolete. As a result, Oerlikons were replaced by 40 mm Bofors where ever possible during 1944-45 and removed entirely from most US ships by the mid-1950s.* Because Bofors could kill kamikazes better. Remove suicidal piloted bombs from the mix, and the Oerlikon presents itself as a very good weapon.

[@IamLeRanger]

D4rkn3ss2000 what about Polsten 20mm cannons?

[@Battleship009]

Then WHY did post war ships have them then and why did also said ships have 3 inch guns instead 40mm guns?

[@FawfulDied]

Because the 3" shells could carry VT fuzes, which the 40mm shells couldn't.

[@fatboyrowing]

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

[@neilwilson5785]

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

[@thebigpotato4175]

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

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

And still serving on AC-130 Spectre !

[@christiannguyen6846]

it's really effective not only just for anti-aircraft but also in the anti enemy ship at close range, this had been proved in the battle of Paracel islands 1974

[@knightowl3577]

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

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

@Fine Wine in anger as in in wartime fighting against an defined foe.

[@Crisisdarkness]

I love this kind of videos, WG apart from building an excellent game, they care in rescuing legends stories, thanks, it's nice to learn how wars forced to improve the weapons of war.

[@KimJakab]

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! :)

[@luisalizondo4973]

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

[@StormBringare]

Heavily upgraded versions are still in use in the swedish version of the CV90, the Stridsfordon 9040 and on smaller swedish naval vessels like mine sweepers and such.

[@tnapoles1]

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

[@gillesguillaumin6603]

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.

[@flybobbie1449]

Explosion museum and the whole Royal naval dockyard Portsmouth UK very interesting place to visit.

[@CharmsDad]

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.

[@alexvdm1799]

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!

[@jotabe1984]

many navies still uses the L70, Italians made "Dardo" system back in the 80's which is basically a twin 40mm L70 mount w/automated feeding system that allowed for 600r/m. It was created as a mature barrel close range AA solution, in an era were Missiles were not as effective and they also costed a lot, compared with the much cheaper 40mm ammo, that made them a reasonable purchase for small ships or 3rd world's Navys. But furthermore, that system had some flexibility and allowed anti-ship usage (mainly small crafts and high seas intruding ships) which is very usefull for sea control on all shorts of patrolboats. And last but not least, it can also be somehow used as a rudimentary anti missile system. Not the best around, but with a decent chance against older missiles like MM38 Exocet In the 2010's Italians made a last improve over their Dardo system, which they called "Fast Forty", that consisted in a new feeding mechanism that allowed for up to 900rounds per minute. That development came along with 3GP "intelligent" 40mm ammo, that could switch from Fragmentary to APFSDS warhead. This was supposed to compensate the shortcomings on the 40mm in modern naval warfare, since all modern CIWS have much much greater RoF and for AA 5000 its too little, since many nations do produce or have in stock Missiles for their aircraft and Helicopters with a range at least 4 times the range of those guns. The 50% RoF improvement along with the extremely heavy (for the CIWS job) warhead, and the chance of engaging in 2 separated instances (1st fragmentary shells that cover a lot of ground, and lastly kinetic shells to blow the incoming missile away) plus the reasonable chance of early (long range) engagement on the incoming missile by 2 or more Dardo "CIWS" (that would double or more the effective RoF against the incoming threat) was expected to convince current Dardo users to improve their systems. Don't know how that really worked for the Italian company, but at least we can say that 40mm ain't retired yet since the development of FastForty was just a few years ago

[@azynkron]

In particular slower moving targets like helicopters.

[@LeoLee_urs]

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

[@franz_stigler]

Léo Lee but considering that it was probably mounted on every ship the Allies used during the war it may not be a ship but it's a legend nonetheless

[@quintiax]

You don't know it, but Bofor guns where secretly a ship. Don't tell anyone else!

[@rocket_sensha4337]

yep..he is still in service down here soo... yep more like a live legend , that even long after his days have ended... we will see the legacy of the bofors family well rooted in our countries.

[@smort3547]

Lets sail on uss bofors!

[@ax2bxc]

It's an anti aircraft boat that couldn't float that's why it's strapped onto ships instead /s

[@dudleylitz7369]

Friend was in Bofors crew aboard the Intrepid during Leyte.

[@MrBandholm]

Not to mention, the new upgraded 40 mm Bofors that are getting installed on (among other ships) the new T31 frigates of the RN.

[@erichvondonitz5325]

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

[@charles1964]

Get yourself an 1896 6.5mm Swedish Mauser and you can hold Neutrality in your hands ; )

[@jahmanoog461]

Bofors was a Swiss invention. neutral? Perhaps, due to their secret banking system.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

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..

[@lukum55]

The gun is also still used on the Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicles

[@geomodelrailroader]

The Bofor is a legend and today even upgraded it still slings lead into the air to take out the enemy.

[@georgeeverette3912]

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.

[@redalertsteve_]

George Everette you ever heard of the Japanese Kamikaze.

[@shinsekai101]

Its range was 7km. You dont drop a torpedo 7km away....

[@mithikx]

For the American mass produced guns, I know that Chrysler (who built the US versions of the gun) had to change the measurements and tighten up the tolerances for mass production as the original design used metric measurements (which the US did not use) and required a substantial amount of hand tooling which made the guns slow and expensive to manufacture. And in the end they halved production time and production cost while making four times more guns per month than originally planned at half the cost that they originally gave to the military, with each component made with greater precision than their Swedish originals using unskilled labor.

[@Slayer_Jesse]

Neat, good to know. And know how many ships the US built and alot of them had this gun, they NEEDED all the guns they could get.

[@mithikx]

My bad, just corrected my comment. In my defense it was early in the morning and I've yet to have coffee.

[@Ron52G]

When the original blue prints have hand written notes on them saying, you may need to make this hole larger and this hole is supposed to be square. You know the parts tolerances need to be better.

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

It was the Proximity fuse that made that thing lethal..

[@jacobmccandles1767]

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.

[@daninthout8308]

In 1970 on the AC-130, we had some lot 1942 40mm ammo.

[@kentoscocos5238]

How much? Entire warehouse full of 40mm ammo?

[@antonios90lm]

yo tambien dispare municion del 1942 en 1976 en san fernando

[@RoloC4]

Wilf Pickles is a fantastic name

[@1catbrains]

Mr Pickles !

[@Pincer88]

My father, serving with the RNL Army back in the 1960ies, was a radar operator on the Fledermaus radar, which controlled 3 Bofors 40L70 automatically. Later on the Fledermaus was replaced by the Holland Signaal Apparaten Flycatcher radar, which proved to be quite effective in protecting airfields as a SHORADS. They were in service until the early 1990ies. The gun is still not out of action, proving its sound design. The 40L70 is also presently mounted on the Swedish CV90 mechanized infantry combat vehicle. And Italian destroyers and frigates have them in twin Oto Breda mounts, license built. Not bad for a gun conceived so long ago.

[@BVargas78]

Loving your educational videos World of Warships!

[@Chu-Raya]

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

[@arcturus4762]

Investigate on Inazuma's and Ikazuchi's enemy sailor rescuing... crew's honorability was way above heroic

[@Chu-Raya]

ArthurTFE Ah yeah, i've heard about that. Amazing how people still had some humanity left

[@FawfulDied]

They're underwater. Every Naval Legend except Yamato is still afloat, IIRC.

[@Chu-Raya]

FawfulDied Yukikaze has been scrapped. But they could just make an episode with more animations since the real ship isn't there anymore

[@kameron1290]

Hard to do if the ships were already underwater, probably we'll get some Naval Legends about Ships that are preserved as a Museum

[@erichvondonitz5325]

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

[@markador]

I actually got training in a twin Bofors gun. rotating the gun sideways. i was worried about the sound that it would make but eventually it wasn't that bad.

[@Neumah]

Eventually? When you had already gone deaf? lol

[@markador]

@@Neumah ah, excuse me for my bad English then. The gun wasn't that loud, it was weird, because i was thinking that the bigger the gun, the louder it would be, but that wasn't the case.

[@bartoszmichaek8497]

I don't know if anyone already mention that but when you show the map of countries which bought Bofors in 30's 05:02 you used post 1945 Poland's border.