The RBS 56 BILL is a Swedish manportable SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile developed by AB Bofors. Development began in 1979 and BILL entered production...
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Aktiebolaget (AB) Bofors-Gullspång. A leading Swedish steel producer by the early 1870s, when steel began to be used for gun manufacture in Sweden, Bofors initially...
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Swedish arms company Bofors was signed for supply of 410 155 mm Howitzer field guns. April 16, 1987 - Swedish Radio alleged that Bofors paid kickbacks to...
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MAAWS) 84 mm anti-tank recoilless rifle RBS-56 Bill ATGM RBS 56 Bill 2 ATGM NLAW ATGM Bofors 40 mm Saab Bofors Dynamics CBJ-MS 9 mm PDW Ak 5C 5.56mm carbine...
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an armoured vehicle. BILL is acronym for Bofors Infantry Light & Lethal. The RBS 56B BILL 2 was designed upon the original BILL 1 Anti-tank guided weapon...
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variants got updated with racks for AT4s and some vehicles even received a Bofors BILL man-portable anti-tank missile system. As part of the Swedish IFV-doctrine...
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fitted with the launch system for an ATGM, either the TOW (Rbs 55) or the Bofors BILL (Rbs 56). Signalist version of the Bv 206 with radio relay capability...
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BONUS (Bofors Nutating Shell) or ACED (Anti-Char à Effet Dirigé) is a 155 mm artillery cluster round co-developed and manufactured by Bofors of Sweden...
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by Saab Bofors Dynamics in Eskilstuna and Karlskoga, Sweden, using technology derived from earlier Bofors systems; such as the RBS 56B BILL 2 (warhead...
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lit. 'Nohab Aero engine factory'), which had been acquired by Bofors in 1935. Bofors had in recent years been in development with the Swedish Air Force...
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first put into service by the Swedish Armed Forces in 1988 with the Bofors RBS 56 BILL top-attack anti-tank missile. Another method of top attack is the...
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they decided to adopt the Bofors 40 mm and a twin barrel Vickers 2-pdr (40 mm) on a modified naval mount. The air-cooled Bofors was vastly superior for...
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Britain and abroad. Hughes' film credits included Smashing Time (1967), The Bofors Gun (1968), Till Death Us Do Part (1969), The Virgin Soldiers (1969), The...
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the 1860s, but the dominating ironworks was the one in nearby Bofors. In 1871, Bofors produced 6,124 metric tons of iron, more than any other plant in...
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of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role....
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1927 heavy field gun (cannon model 1927) (1934–????) Bofors 75 mm Model 1934 mountain gun (Bofors 75 mm) (1935–????) 10.5 cm kanon m/34 heavy field gun...
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Justice of India. In 1990, Bhushan wrote a book Bofors, the selling of a nation (1990) on the Bofors scandal. CPIL won a major victory in 2003 when the...
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altogether and one of the 40mm Bofors and instead went to the configuration of two 20mm M61 Vulcan, one 40mm L/60 Bofors and one 105 mm (4.13 in) M102...
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the 1986 Bofors scandal which tainted the government of Rajiv Gandhi.[citation needed] The CBI was responsible for the inquiry into the Bofors case. Associates...
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Precision Guided Mortar Munition – (United States) Bofors/Nexter Bonus – (Sweden, France) Bofors STRIX – (Sweden) Ripley, Tim (1992). The new illustrated...
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October 2020, BAE Systems Bofors announced it was under contract to supply five Bofors 57 mm Mk3 medium calibre guns and ten Bofors 40 mm Mk4 small calibre...
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H. R. Bhardwaj (section Bofors scandal)
the Manmohan Singh cabinet between 2004 and 2009.[citation needed] From Bofors to office of profit and the failed attempt to remove Navin Chawla as election...
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who consulted other party members and refrained from hasty decisions. The Bofors scandal damaged his reputation as an honest politician, but he was posthumously...
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Jagannath Mishra (section Bihar Press Bill)
Minister of Bihar came in the wake of an anti-congress sentiment due to Bofors scandal and he was brought in to save the Congress in 1990 Bihar elections...
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Project Bofors Defense 57-mm L". ppt-sharing.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017. "Deepwater Project Bofors Defense...
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Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bill passed by Parliament. Allegations of corruption in the procurement of howitzers from Bofors, the government’s refusal to...
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a document. The first JPC was formed in August 1987 to investigate the Bofors scandal. It was chaired by Congress politician B. Shankaranand. It was formed...
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Gandhi's cabinet—uncovered irregularities, in what became known as the Bofors scandal, during his stint at the Ministry of Defence; Singh was subsequently...
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these large-calibre automatic guns. Weapons such as the Oerlikon 20 mm, the Bofors 40 mm and various German Rheinmetall autocannons would see widespread use...
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100 miles (160 km). Armament consists of fully automatic twin 40 mm M2A1 Bofors, with a rate of fire of 2×120 rounds per minute (rpm) enabling nearly 85...
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