Bofors 40mm/L70 Type 520R

[odysseus1980]

Do we have somewhere the Bofors 40mm/L70 Type 520R mount? I remember seen it in old archives.

Some links

https://www.seaforces.org/marint/German ... -class.htm
http://cmano-db.com/images/DB3000/ship_201.jpg

[heuhen]

non of those links work!

You are probably looking for BAE Bofors 40mm Mk4 but with a different turret (similar design turret as Oto Melara 76mm SP)

You can find it on shipbucket wiki:



Swedish parts sheet, there is an Bofors L70mm/70 the turret Norway use:
https://i.imgur.com/91ZO8Xc.png

British 40mm/70
https://i.imgur.com/nSccJMO.png

The German 40mm Flak 28 (Bofors) is on this sheet:
https://i.imgur.com/zYUWIxP.png

The old uber-part-sheet!:
https://i.imgur.com/J31zhoz.png

[odysseus1980]

Fixed the links.

The Type 520R mount is Italian and appeared in late 1980's (or probably mid 1980's). The Bae Mk4 is much newer.

[heuhen]

I haven't seen any ships with that turret.

It's most likely a Oto Melara 40mm/70 (either the fast forty or twin compact) but with a new turret and electronics. those two turret is in the part sheet above, you can take them and draw the new turret on to them.

[superboy]

maybe

[odysseus1980]

That's it! Thanks, I have that ship in my archive.

[Gollevainen]

yhe L/70 onboard Finnish ships had fiberglass mountings made domestically, and thus are not the same ones as other navies, using the same gun. I have drawn some of them during my long career, but I cant recall if the ones shown here on Hämeenmaa are the latest version.

[odysseus1980]

I think that the glass is bit different on the Finnish version, the other side is very close to the baseline Italian version, so it works fine for me.

[dy031101]

maybe

The mounts in the drawing seem to indicate the presence of rocket flare racks. Has such an option been available and/or taken up by any Bofors 40mm user, particular for mountings that do not require deck penetration?