In article <5gnuo5tdf9urligpo2jp30fm60dd5o9ipe@4ax.com> on Wed, 03 Mar
2010 23:17:42 -0800, phamp@mindspring.com (pyotr filipivich) wrote:
> Irrc, Krupp had a controlling interests in Bofors - makers of the
> 20mm antiaircraft gun, aka the "pom-pom" gun. And the German
> Government allowed the manufacture and sale of submarines for export
> to foreign navies, with the stipulation that it would be a German
> Navy
> crew which would make the delivery.
Oerlikon (Danish) made the 20mm AA gun; Bofors (Swedish) made the 40mm.
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