{"id":16853,"date":"2020-10-16T03:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/bofors-40mm-autocannon-part1\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T03:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T08:54:06","slug":"bofors-40mm-autocannon-part1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/bofors-40mm-autocannon-part1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bofors 40mm Autocannon, Part1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UnDwlqbAEmQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Swedish Bofors 40mm, an anti-aircraft autocannon,  gun was adopted by many countries.  It fired a 40mm shell at a rate of 120 rounds per minute. This animation, part 1, shows the firing and loading mechanism.  Part 2 should show the basic mounting and explain how the cocking, trigger and latches operate to regulate the operation of the gun.  Note that Part 1 is still &#8216;work-in-progress&#8217; and will require some changes, but the essential mechanisms shown are thought to be accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Bofors 40mm, an anti-aircraft autocannon, gun was adopted by many countries. It fired a 40mm shell at a rate of 120 rounds per minute. This animation, part 1, shows the firing and loading mechanism. Part 2 should show the basic mounting and explain how the cocking, trigger and latches operate to regulate the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/bofors-40mm-autocannon-part1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bofors 40mm Autocannon, Part1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}