40 mm Bofors AA guns made in GB and US

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
Do I take it that the Predictors mentioned were in the G/S trailers, and that in due course these were no longer required and so the F60B trucks reverted to SP units?

The Bofors guns could in an emergency be fired from the truck platform without stabilization and aiming with open "spider-web" sights even when driving at a moderate speed.

Normally however the truck halted, the outriggers and jacks were folded out and the truck-gun platform was secured to the ground. So the truck type SP Bofors was not a fighting vehicle but only a means of transportation.

Then the Predictor was offloaded from the G/S trailer and put up on a tripod mount. Thereafter the electrical cables were attached between the Predictor and the gun platform.