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Bofors Company
Swedish arms company
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antiaircraft gun development
- In artillery: Light weapons
…by the Swedish firm of Bofors. Virtually an enlarged machine gun, this fired small exploding shells at a rate of about 120 rounds per minute—fast enough to provide a dense screen of fragments through which the aircraft would have to fly. Fire control was largely visual, though some guns were…
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role of Nobel
- In Alfred Nobel
…he bought an ironworks at Bofors, near Varmland, that became the nucleus of the well-known Bofors arms factory. Besides explosives, Nobel made many other inventions, such as artificial silk and leather, and altogether he registered more than 350 patents in various countries.
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