bofors gun in English

noun
1
a type of light antiaircraft gun.
Like the Krupp howitzers and Bofors guns rusting in the courtyard, the labels are curling and yellowing to dust, fading alongside the photos of colonels supervising construction of the museum in the 1960s.

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1. Each has a Breda Bofors gun and an Aloutte 3 helicopter; both possess the range for hit-and-run raids to the Falklands.

2. Meronyms (parts of "Antiaircraft"): predictor (a computer for controlling Antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Antiaircraft"): Bofors gun (an automatic double-barreled Antiaircraft gun) Derivation: