engineerd™, on April 9th, 2012
In 1922, the Swedish Navy ordered 2-lb. “Pom Pom” guns as anti-aircraft guns. By 1928, the 2-pounders were inadequate and he Swedes began seeking out a replacement. They approched Bofors, a Swedish steel producer, about a replacement cannon. Bofors got to work on their 40 mm design and fired it off in 1930.
Continue reading Bofors 40mm: Part Machine Gun, Part Artillery
Tanshanomi, on January 21st, 2011
Engineerd’s earlier Stealth Week post on Hidden Swiss Defenses reminded me of a couple of pictures I’d seen several years ago of hidden naval tunnels in Sweden. I finally got the chance this morning to track them down on greenhulk.net, a personal watercraft forum I’ve been known to frequent. The pics are as cool as I remembered them.
Continue reading Sweden’s Hidden Naval Bunkers
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