The best aerial defense systems in the world are based on earth-Aire missiles and have radars, ultraprecisous and powerful eyelets tracking systems. However, these missiles are expensive, and when hundreds of cruise ammiles and missiles are in the air, sometimes you have to use the traditional anti -aircraft artillery.
This is what has happened in the war in Ukraine -disabled by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, more than three years ago -where a shared video shows how the Ukrainian defense had to use the anti -aircraft barrel Bofors 40 mm l/70 against a Russian drone, as reported by the specialized portal .
Thus, as published, the Ukrainians successfully broke down a Russian drone, probably the GEAN-2, which is a new victory for the legendary anti-aircraft barrel Bofors. “This is quite impressive, considering that the 40 mm L/70 Bofors developed as a replacement for a similar canyon of World War II, the 40 mm L/60 bofors,” he said.
Lithuania supplied 36 Bofors L/70 mm anti -aircraft guns in 2023 to deal with Russian kamikazes drones. Initially, the media indicates that the video showed one of those Lithuanian cannons in action. However, Ukraine has also received bofors cannons from the Netherlands, so it is not known with certainty. This air defense weapon is still quite popular, and many other countries could also have sent it to Ukraine, he clarifies.
The Automatic Bofors L/70 mm cannon is a versatile automatic automatic cannon developed by the Swedish weapons manufacturer AB Bofors (currently BAE Systems Bofors) during the second half of the 1940s as a modern substitute for its extremely successful bofors canyon design L/60 of 40 mm of the time of the Second World War.
Initially it was conceived as a specific anti -aircraft weapon, selling as 40mm automatic aa gun l/70 Military Galaxy.
