On Topic. I thought the mounted gun was for a local defence for the gun ie ground attack to your potition and very low flying AC where the Bofors would be completley useless.

I doubt that very much. The Bofors was actually pretty good at short range, and in any case it would have been far better to put the MG on a separate mounting so it could be rapidly swung around by hand rather than cranking away at the handles on the Bofors mounting.

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