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Kiev forces have reportedly received an unknown number of Swedish-made Bofors 40 mm L/60 anti-aircraft autocannons.
On May 11, a photo showing a Bofors 40 mm gun with a service member of Kiev forces in an unspecified part of Ukraine surfaced online.
Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter.
The Bofors gun, which was developed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors, can fire 120 to 140 40 mm rounds per minute. The gun has a maximum firing range of 7,160 meters. It is typically operated by a crew of four.
While the Bofors gun offers great fire power, the lack of a modern fire control system makes it largely ineffective against advanced warplanes. Kiev forces will likely use the powerful gun as a direct fire weapon against ground targets.
Ukrainian sources said that the Bofros guns were supplied by Sweden. However, this is yet to be confirmed. Bofros guns were in service with many Western armies.
Sweden, who claims to be a neutral state, has supplied Kiev forces with loads of weapons, including thousands of anti-tank weapons, since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. However, it didn’t announce any delivers of Bofors guns.
Many Western states have been dumping their old weapon stockpiles into Ukraine on the hope of weakening the Russian military. So far, this policy has prolonged the war, hindered peace talks between Kiev and Moscow and worsened the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Putin is best what could happen to Ukraine! If Putin would have planed to destroy Russia he could not do better like with SMO. He reminds me Slobodan Milosevic. Two loser brothers in mind. Same like Putin the serbian loser refused to call for general mobilization.
Don’t you worry about Mr. Putin. He made all the right moves and decisions. Ruble is up against all currencies, Russia is still in business selling oil and gas and the SMO is going very well considering all circumstances. You should worry about Ukraine. Zelensky did not make peace and now the rest of his remaining army is paying the price. Smart people are surrendering. NATO doesn’t seem very pleased. They lost important people during their silly attack on the Snake Island.
I am not worried about Putin but Russian people and soldiers. Putin is a sick freak. He is already a walking dead. His days are numbered. He will go down as the most incompetent russian president in history with his SMO.
I beg to differ. He is protecting people from Donbass and Luhansk. Biden is an demented old potato. He can’t even speak and does not know where he is or what’s going on, unlike Mr. Putin who is sharp as always. Boy you people fall for every western BS propaganda. How unfortunate. Russia has already won and NATO can’t do anything about this beside spreading fake news and the usual propaganda. The criminal corrupt warmonger-psychos in the west already have enough. Nothing ever works in their favor and they are now trapped to support a failed state and pay billions out of their pocket. Russia’s currency is strong and up again. How stupid must one be not the see that. It’s so easy to verify. But it is like they say, haters will always hate :-)
Bloomberg reported that the Russian ruble is the best performing currency in the world today. My US$ is looking kind of toilet paperish.
He has broke the back of the IMF and that will make him the greatest hero for all free people in modern history.
Artificially inflated ruble is not the same thing as a stable ruble. Ruble is worthless. Nobody wants it except Russians. Watch some good video on the topic from an experienced economist instead of watching currency graphs on Google, lol. Russia’s ruble and its economy are in the toilet.
What a bunch of crap. Russia is by far the richest country on earth. Their currency is backed by its vast resources. US and EU are bankrupt and can’t pay up but just make more debt. USD and EURO are absolutely worthless and more and more countries are trading in their own currency now. Never trust any western BS about finances or anything as they are the biggest liars. The west is drowning in debt and bankrupt. Everyone knows that. What a joke of a statement dude :-) … what a joke.
The richest country. What a fucking deranged maniac. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Rating (2021) Total value of all natural resources:
1. Russia 75 trillion $
2. USA 45 trillion $
3. Saudi Arabia 34.4 trillion $
4. Canada 33.2 trillion $
5. Iran 27.3 trillion $
6. China 23 trillion $
7. Brazil 21.8 trillion $
8. Australia 19.9 trillion $
9. Iraq 15.9 trillion. $
10. Venezuela 14.3 trillion. $
Too bad Russia doesn’t know how to transform resources into bussines and products. Maybe China could buy Russia after Russia loses this war with more and more embarresement. https://twitter.com/musketeiro/status/1524762250594164738
He’ll find out eventually. If China could, it would have bought it long ago. And if he doesn’t buy, then he can’t.
Don’t talk ahead of time about what you don’t know. Or maybe you know the future?
Knowing how Russians are doing in this war, likely China will buy them. One needs logic to predict.
Then why hasn’t China bought it yet?
One needs fantasy to think the Ukies with all the help from NUTO can win this.
You mean like the stolen grain the Putin cockroaches tried to sell Egypt and Lebanon and is now stuck at the port of Latakia? You mean those resources? Why the fuck is your piece of shit terrorist dictator trying to steal it then?
Give me proof or don’t shake the air with empty chatter.
Welllll your figures are a little off. Since we, the US, are $30trillion in debt, admitted, it’s more like $15trillion in assets. Since it really is more like $150-200trillion in debt we are upside down in our country. If you are upside down in your car loan you can just let them repo it. They didn’t sound like a great option on your country. But hey we’re exceptional.
The only reason we have the most military spending on earth is to beat the shit out of countries that try to not use the petro$. ALL US WARS ARE BANKERS WARS
You live in a toilet.
The ruble has become the leader of growth among the 31 major currencies of the world, Bloomberg reported, having strengthened against the dollar by more than 11% since the beginning of the year. In the international currency market, the ruble exchange rate has increased even more — by about 12% since the beginning of the year.
It was over 100 for one dollar in March , now it’s ~65, was 1 week ago.
Don’t phuck up a good fantasy with inconvenient facts. Hands Raw will sob.
Read Bloomberg speed bump. They say the ruble is the strongest currency on earth and it’s not like they like Russia at all.
And that donkey phuck in Azovstal. I’m thinking that is going nuclear in the embarrassment phase for NUTO. It’s like waiting for Santa Claus to see the guest list there.
Maybe it will be good for Russia too. After the super corrupted government is got rid of, military can be mopped from corrupted generals and untrained incompetent troops.
If Russia’s government is super corrupt, then why is it not in last place in the “Ranking of countries by the level of corruption”?
Pray tell who is going to do that. NUTO, UK’s Virus Johnson, Groper Joe Biden, Poland? Lol
Russia had better get their shit together. NATO is mobilizing and it will be shock and awe. Nuclear war and the end of the world will come shortly behind that. I say July.
Actually limited nuclear war favours Russia as it would be confined to non nuclear states (nuclear states won’t put their homesteads on the line, including Russia) That effectively means Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltics, Finland, Sweden…… would all be in play for creation of a vaporised Buffer zone to roll back Nato. So Nuclear gloves off Favours Russia – Make my Day NATO!
Please please please take out the banking city of London and tel Aviv.
Why do you mobilize for a nuclear war? Are you somehow on drugs? NATO is just staging some exercise like always, nothing more. They know the moment they become part of that conflict it is over for them.
This is a correct assessment, NATO cannot become directly involved as they would serve the entry pass for a nuclear or conventional rollback of NATO to 1997 borders or maybe beyond – it would serve the Russian goal, by a NATO action – not smart at all if NATO were to do that!
Exactly, NATO is just flexin. No need to fight Russia, Ukrainians are doing a fantastic job already: https://twitter.com/musketeiro/status/1524762250594164738 Losing a whole battalion in a day, wow.
If there were so many drones in the Russian troops, we would have seen the same losses on the Ukrainian side.
If these are Russian losses, there is no proof of that.
Hey we Americans aren’t comfortable with shit hitting our country, we like to keep war on foreign soil.
See a psychiatrist. You’re delusional.
No need, Russian are destroying their own battalions. https://twitter.com/musketeiro/status/1524762250594164738 Why would NATO interfere.
What makes you think that these are Russian losses.
No, if Nato brings nuclear war THEY are the ones who better start praying. Our Creator knows how they started all this. Our Creator shall bring Justice. The Bible tells us so.
They were perfect for taking on German propeller bombers – read pretty useless today other than a photo opportunity! Did the searchlight come with it!
Yeah along with the built in air raid siren.
Yes you can even find black and white news reels of this gun in ‘modern’ action – They definitely should have got the siren as well for authenticity and my it would send a shiver down the spine!
Manually aimed air defence weapons were practically useless during WWII. Only radar directed AA fire was effective.
You should review the maturity, use cases and compactness of Radar in WWII. Honestly the need to use valves and lack of wave guides make a difference! But the reality is the searchlight did a very effective job, and once a bomber was caught and held in that searchlight, then the Bofor did its job quite well!
All these obsolete combat pieces of garbage from the Soviet Union have been spotted. Turns out the Ukranian forces are destroying so many shitty Russian tanks that the Putin cockroaches have been forced to salvage all their shittier tanks from the Soviet era arsenal. Check it out. It’s pathetic: 28 Akatsi self-propelled howitzers (from the 94th arsenal (Omsk); 15 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers, five Akatsia self-propelled howitzers, and 20 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers (from the arsenal in Gagarinskiy, Sverdlovsk region); 15 Uragan MLR systems and 11 Tochka-U tactical missile launchers (from the 109th arsenal (Batareyna, Irkutsk region).
I was expecting some evidence but as usual you have none because there is none. The more Ukraine fails the more desperate you get. They loose territory every day. They suffer heavy loses in manpower and equipment too. How you imbeciles make your BS up is just amazing and also pretty pathetic. But keep it coming. In the end facts on the ground count, not your imagination.
As usual you’re just a fucking moron who doesn’t even know that your shitty army has now fully withdrawn from Kharkiv and trying to hold on to Izyum. Or maybe you do know and you’re just a lying Putin cockroach. But it’s probably both. That’s usually the case.
shut up ya goat shagging pedo worshiper!
See we what mean? Both a liar and a moron. This one’s British moron. Probably kidnapping and raping homeless dogs out there in Bristol.
British morons kidnaped and raped your bitch mother, fucked her bloody bum soooo hard until she defecated you deformed turd from her rectum… go back there and die you dumb pile of shit.
shut up, ya goat shagging pedo worshiping piece of human garbage!
As usual you fucking moronic, imbecilic, inbred cockcuking cockroach, total loser and a desperate worthless basement bitch vomiting blood and diarrhea from your crazy deranged shithole gay mouth infected with 1000 diseases, polluting this site and the rest of the world with your moronic garbage and copy-pasted crap in vain attempt to prove that you utterly clueless and brainless bitch know anything except eating shit and sucking dog dicks in your rancid dark basement. Go hang yourself there you moronic pile of shit.
Look who’s back from the dead. I already thought he had burned to death in one of those shitty T-90M tanks that were just obliterated by Ukranian forces. I kind of missed him. He’s such a fucking delusional retard that he always cracks me up.
https://t.me/intelslava/28552
Russia is FUBARed. It dug its own grave and now it’s in the process of lying down in it. Hahaha.
Yeah, that is why NATO run away and Zelensky is begging for help and support. NATO has triggered a response from Russia they never expected. Now they are out of ammo. Sanctions didn’t work, supplies don’t work and they end up paying for everything. Russia’s currency is up, they still make a killing by selling gas and oil to EU, US and UK. How about that :-)
Worthless old crap
https://t.me/intelslava/27937
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How sad that Sweden and Switzerland, which have worked for centuries to remain relatively neutral players where all sides can be heard and even meet secretly, have whored out to the evil NATO. They are destroying themselves and their culture. Switzerland started down this path when going along with the US post 9/11 assault on liberty around the globe by agreeing to financial reporting BS.
Totally, I always admired the fact that the citizens of Switzerland are the most armed in the world, more than the US even. I am sure the majority of the people in Switzerland and Sweden do not agree with their government. This just goes to show that all of the EU nations currently have puppet governments. It does not matter anymore though. Russia’s SMO has set off a chain of events that cannot be undone. The nations of the west will now be marginalized and play a lesser role on the world stage. The US and EU on their own volition and blinded by greed severely miscalculated by thinking they could subjugate the Bear and the Red Dragon.
US especially will grovel at the feet of the Chinese, all major CEOs of American corporations and their crony capitalist politicians should be required to record themselves singing the Chinese national anthem and bowing to their God Xi Jinping with their quarterly earnings reports. The past week has proven beyond any corporate stooge analyst’s doubt that the entire US economic system is built on Chinese logistics and the entire EU energy system is built on Russian commodities.
Once you let in the US and British NGOs, your sovereignity goes out the window.
NATO has run out of weapons, options and any kind of dignity and common sense. It was NATO and UK military advisors that carried out and organized the failed fiasco of an operation to try and retake Snake Island. NATO even made Ukraine use their most highly trained special forces, dozens of them to try and retake an island that has absolutely zero strategic value. The bodies of the dead Ukrainian soldiers are still washing up ashore. More than 30 NATO countries are being completely outmatched, outgunned and humiliated in front of the whole world by a single nation that so far has only used less than 10 percent of its military might. NATO has been arming and prepping Ukraine for the last eight years to fight Russia and within the first 2 hours of Russia’s SMO, Russia wiped out the vast majority of Ukraine’s Navy and Air Force.
Did you see the reports on the missile attack on the Grande Pettine Hotel in the Odessa “Riviera”? The Russians hit it right after or during the Snake Island fiasco because “foreign mercenaries” were holed up there. Grunt adventurers would not be at a beach hotel. These would have been the NATO intel guys running the op. 60 killed. The destruction videos were posted. Of course, we won’t be hearing more about these effers getting blasted.
Yes I heard of that and also Russia blew up a huge weapons cache in Odessa. I was watching 4k video of Odessa my goodness it is a beautiful city. Definitely the pearl of the Black Sea. Once Russia takes Odessa I believe the operation will be nearing its end. Russia will have complete control of the import/export and commerce in all of Ukraine. Whatever government is in the new rump state of landlocked Ukraine will have to be very friendly towards Russia if they want to be able to have an economy.
Grande Pettine Hotel in the Odessa today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PQ6Xfzlbk4
H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956): “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
Zelenskiy betrayed Ukrainians who voted for an ‘outsider’ proposing peace and negotiations. Instead they got a born-again Yankee whose only real skill is the ability to lie on cue, and think of new ways to move aid money ‘skim’ to his Swiss bank accounts.
Ukraine lost this war in 2014, when between 70% and 95% of recalled reservists failed to appear. Citing British Home office reports, Col. Jacques Baud (Swiss Military Intelligence), “Young Ukrainians refused to go and fight in the Donbass and preferred emigration, which also explains, at least partially, the demographic deficit of the country.” Meaning there are no young Ukrainian men left to join the army. They are enjoying life in Europe. If they come back, they will enjoy Bandera widows.
https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/
Col. Baud again, “In October/November 2017, 70% of conscripts did not show up for the “Fall 2017” recall campaign. This is not counting suicides and desertions (often over to the autonomists), which reached up to 30 percent of the workforce in the ATO area.” This repeated the disaster of the first 2014 – 2015 AFU attacks when entire units defected with their weapons and equipment to Donetsk and Lugansk armies who then inflicted the Debaltsevo beating.
Henry Kissinger (Washington Post): “For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.”
Zelenskiy and his NAYOYO puppet masters now have no resource but Galician traitors and foreign mercenaries bigoted enough to think they can win any war, as long as they fight civilians. As usual the US picks, as allies and ‘friends’, the worst war criminals.
Winston Churchill (1944): ”I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army.”
That is a lot of good info.
Thank you NAYOYO, for supplying such great weapons to the AFU. They will be a welcome addition to Russian artillery firepower on the march West.
Even Bloomberg news had to admit that the Russian Ruble is the world’s best performing currency this year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/russian-ruble-surpasses-brazilian-real-as-world-s-best-currency
and with guns from 1930, ukies pushed the russsians back to their border… what a shame …
PRE WW2 WEAPON SYSTEMS. WTF
More junk from the west. Some of these weapons are pre WW2. IT LOOKS LIKE THE West is going out of their way to kill off the NAZIS.
I don’t know if Putin really wants peace but it’s obvious the West wants all the NAZIS dead. They want to blame the slaughter on Russia. And what’s really funny is the NAZIs are stupid enough to follow the worms.
Donated by Oxfam. … to allow starving Ukies to shoot their own food .
Sweden mocks ukros. This gun is useful only in CV-90 IFV. Towed AA gun is useless now, it has no modern sights. It can be used for firing at light armored vehicles, but its crew have no protection at all It’s easy target for any APC/IFV with 30-mm gun, cannon fodder as it is.
This gun might be useful against surveilence drones. In modern warfare, one answer to advanced anti air missiles has been drones that are cheaper than for example Russian S-400 missiles. Forcing counters that are low end.
There are two versions of Bofors 40mm gun. One is from 1930s and another from 1950s. Although they look the same, they use different ammo, and have different fire rate and range. I can’t tell which one is on the photo just by looking at it, and would like to know how does the author know that it’s the older one. That being said, even the newer one is a joke compared to Stinger, and a towed version is nothing more than a target.