Pictures of Naval AAA

[CptSimFreak]

Here's a display of Naval AAA guns near fort Krepkii Oreh by St Petersburg.

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[waste gate]

Bofors?

[AntEater]

Hardly, those are soviet type AA guns of WW2 vintage.
I think most are 37mm or 57mm caliber.
I suppose they were originally mounted on WW2 or 1950s era ships like the Sverdlov class cruisers or Storzevoy (sp?) class destroyers.

[waste gate]

Hardly, those are soviet type AA guns of WW2 vintage.
I think most are 37mm or 57mm caliber.
I suppose they were originally mounted on WW2 or 1950s era ships like the Sverdlov class cruisers or Storzevoy (sp?) class destroyers.

I don't know much about naval gunnery, or how to easily identify one from the other, but they sure look like bofors to me. Don't they have the same function?

[AntEater]

The same function as all pre radar AA guns:
Put up a wall of lead around the ship which will splash anything trying to drop a bomb or a torpedo.
Not very subtle but surely effective
:D

I noted the Russians/Soviets preserved a lot of WW2 guns and other ship parts, like the Turrets from the Cruiser Kirov (the WW2 one, not the nuclear one).
But navies are build from tradition, so if you can't save the ship, you save a part of it..