The inspiration for the 40mm Bofors gun traces back to the 1920s when the Swedish Navy expressed a desire for a more capable replacement for their Vickers Pom-Pom anti-aircraft guns. The Swedish ...
Elaborating this point, I said that when Rajiv Gandhi conveyed to Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson on March 14, 1986 his decision to give the howitzer gun contract to Bofors, I thought he ...
When the Rajiv Gandhi government struck the $ 1.3 billion defence deal with A B Bofors of Sweden in 1986, it was General Sundarji who, as he says, "gave professional advice to go in for a gun with ...
This shell was made specifically for the Bofors light ack-ack (40mm) gun which was designed in Sweden and used by both sides. My father was a member of a 10 man ack-ack gun team, firstly in the ...
Taut, icy direction and acting flawlessly tuned to what the writer [John McGrath, from his play Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun]has in mind bring a faultless realism. Clash is between David ...
The gun is based on Swedish Bofors guns, but has a better range. Dhanush is a long-range artillery gun with a strike range of 38 km. Also known as the “Desi Bofors”, the gun fires 155mm x 45mm ...