Bofor Gun info.

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by BadAim

So far as I know the Bofors (and the German 37, which is really the same gun) had only a contact fuse, with a timer so that the shell would explode at the end of it's range. I'll see what I can find.

The German Bofors Version was called 4 cm Flak 28, the 3,7 cm Flak 37 is a different design.
The German Wehrmacht also used a great amount of captured Russian, Polish, British, Norvegian and French 40mm Bofors which were then called 4 cm Flak(r) (r= russisch/ russian) or 4 cm Flak (n) (n= norwegisch/norvegian) etc.
The German 4 cm Bofors and the captured 40mm Bofors guns were mostly used in Norway, Denmark and France for Harbor and Airfield defence and very rarely mounted on vehicles.
Also most of this guns were used by Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe units, few of these guns were also mounted on ships.

German 4 cm Flak 28:


British Q.F. 40mm Mk I Bofors: