Project Proposal

I am studying the Bofors 40mm AA gun because I want to find out why the design of the Bofors 40mm was more effective than the AA guns of other nations in order to understand it’s impact on the future and it’s usage today. In this essay, I’ll talk about the company that produced these guns, their orign, how they compared to other AA guns of different nations, their impact on the future, and their usage today.

All of my sited sources are in my Zotero library which can be accessed by this link: https://www.zotero.org/jonathanjesko/library

When I first searched up my topic on Google, the first sources that came up was Wikipedia due to it’s popularity, so I decided to look into the Wikipedia articles about my chosen topic, in Wikipedia, I found two links: One of the Bofors 40mm L60 and another for the Bofors 40mm L70, the article about the L60 variant contained useful information about the inital design and development of the Bofors 40mm, their variants produced by other countries under liscenses and their service usage after WW2, while the article about the L70 variant talks about the more modern L70 which was intended to replace the L60. After reading through the two articles and adding them to my Zotero library, I recalled I watched a Youtube video about the two variants which also included a comparison between the L60 and two other AA guns of it’s time: The British Vickers QF 2-pounder gun and the American 1.1 inch gun. After adding the video to my Zotero library, I did research on the Bofors sompany and added the Wikipedia page to my Zotero library after reading it. After that, I found and added two additional sources. After going through all of these sources, I learned more about what drove the company to design and produce the Bofor 40mm as well as it’s impact on the future of air defense. After going through all of these sources, I have decided to stay on the same direction that I have chosen at the start of the project. I didn’t really learn anything about finding primary and secondary sources from this since I was more focused on aquiring information on my topic. I now know that after purchasing and using British made QF 2-pounder naval guns, the Swedish Navy approached Bofors about developing a more capable replacement. Remaining qeustions that I still have are about the Bofor’s service history and if there are any noteable achivements that the gun has. To achive this task, I’ll further examine my sources and conduct further research on the topic.