Can you identify this gun??

[Godwin Hampton]

Robert, I doubt this would have been the case. Why bother to knock together a Test Gun when they had hundreds of perfectly good Bofors guns? The advantage of such ammunition is that it allows the anti-aircraft gun to effectively engage tanks. A high rate of fire would in this case prove advantageous, and even at single shot the Bofors reloaded automatically.

The Bofors gun offered 360 degrees of traverse, and from 5 degrees depression to 90 degrees of elevation. Hard to beat with any other type of gun carriage. Keep in mind the effective use of the Flak 88 by the Germans, due in some measure to the flexibility afforded by the AA mounting.

The Bofors design was such that it fired from an open breech,unlike manually operated guns where the round is loaded and the gun fired at the opportune moment by releasing the striker. Too many modifications would have had to be carried out to even get this gun to fire.