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![]() ![]() Terms of the license included $500,000 for the manufacturing rights plus $100,000 for two Bofors engineers to help set up production. BuOrd formally obtained Swedish licenses in June 1941, although some manufacturing actually started prior to that time. During the same month, the Dutch escort vessel van Kinsbergen demonstrated these weapons to USN observers in a test off Trinidad. ![]() This arrived in New York from Sweden on 28 August 1940. "The US Navy had a good deal of pre-war interest in this weapon and BuOrd purchased a sample of an air-cooled twin version from Bofors in early 1940. The 5"/38 dual purpose gun was introduced in 1934. The dire need for AA you can see with the USN when the Atlanta-class were started to be laid down in April 1940, long before Pearl Harbor. The US already went that direction even before those attacks. The US kind of learned the potency of aircraft in naval battles due to the combined experiences of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea and Midway. The Italian 90mm and 100mm guns were pretty good though, but like many nations the fire control was lacking. The Magazine fed 13.2mm guns were terrible as AA guns, and like all similar weapons, nearly useless in WWII. With how bad Italian light and medium AA guns were it wouldn't make much of a difference. Only of the the main uses of cruisers in WoWs is to area deny CV's yet the Duca is such a easy target:( I know a lot of US ships in this game only get a fraction of their historical AA capabilities but it seems really poor that a light cruiser that really has nothing going for it (weak as weak guns, sea mine torps and zero armour) gets such abysmal AA defence. However the historical Duca was well armed and actually survived the war relatively in 1 piece despite multiple allied air attacks on her. ![]() Even with the defensive fire mod it doesn't pack much AA prowess. 3 waves of torps fired at it with multiple hits for only 2 planes shot down was rather displeasing. Watching my poor tin can Duca get murdered by a tier 6 CV was sad. ![]()
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